Re: Can you build your own desktop Client?

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:21:47 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:

Day Brown wrote:
Uust down load a recent kernel, then xwindows, browser, and just the
other tools you need, with just the drivers for the hardware you
actually have?

Linux from scratch

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lfs/LFS-BOOK-6.1.1-HTML/index.html
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