Re: Can you build your own desktop Client?

Day Brown wrote:
On Mar 20, 10:23 am, ray <r...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gentoo is another option which permits pretty much that.
Seems like I already have a Gentoo CD; as I recall, it loaded the
support files for other languages and fonts I'll never use.

Gentoo will use what you tell it to use, if you tell it to load all languages it will do that.


The LFS
info looks out of date; he says he used kernel 2.0...

Yes, if it says 2.0, it has to be a alpha version for version 0.0.1, thinks then first version was written for 2.4 kernel.

The current stable one uses 2.6.22
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/


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//Aho
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