{"id":34,"date":"2007-04-05T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burlingk.maniaccollective.org\/?p=34"},"modified":"2018-04-27T06:14:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T06:14:53","slug":"status-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fellowtravelers.net\/index.php\/2007\/04\/05\/status-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Status Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ok, this is what I have been up too, and what my status is.<\/div>\n
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I have been doing a total rebuild of the Linux system on my laptop.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “What distro is the lazy blogger using this week?” one might ask.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Why LFS of course!”<\/div>\n
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Now, for those who know what LFS is, the thought of attempting it on a mostly modern laptop probably seems a little foolish.\u00a0 For those who don’t know what it is, check out The LFS Website<\/a>.\u00a0 It is a great concept, but not for the squeamish or weak of heart.<\/div>\n
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Imagine, installing Linux on your computer without a package manager such as emerge or apt.\u00a0 For that matter, imagine installing Linux on your computer without a distro all together.\u00a0 >:P\u00a0 That my friend is the point to LFS.\u00a0 Linux From Scratch is a guide to building a functional GNU\/Linux system from the ground up.\u00a0 The first step is to build a temporary tool chain, then use it to chroot into a encapsulated environment and build the system from the bottom up starting with glibc, and the compiler package and going from there.<\/div>\n
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It is not as hard as it sounds, but the initial setup from c-lib to X is time consuming.\u00a0 Now for the status report:<\/div>\n
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My system will now boot, and load into Xorg with twm (Tab Window Manager).\u00a0 It is a rather horrid looking interface, but it works.\u00a0 The only glitch I am now having is that my touchpad works just fine, but the USB mouse I am trying to use is not properly detecting.\u00a0 Everything else seems fine.<\/div>\n
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The next step of course is to get that mouse to work.\u00a0 After the mouse is working, I will move on to installing the GTK libraries and their dependencies.\u00a0 From there I will move on to install Xfce and it’s dependencies.\u00a0 Hopefully by the time I\u00a0 have GTK working properly, I will have most of those covered already.<\/div>\n
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Of course somewhere in there, I will install FireFox, just as quick as all of it’s dependencies are met.\u00a0 I may even make it higher priority than Xfce.\u00a0 As I said, twm is rather horrid to look at, but it is sufficiently functional for my purposes for the moment.\u00a0 However, once I have installed Xfce, and maybe Window Maker, I will likely never log into twm again unless I absolutely have to for some bizarre reason.<\/div>\n
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Once I get the above items installed and functioning, I intend to insure that Mesa is functional, and then install the newest stable versions (and in some cases the development versions) of my favorite office and graphical apps.<\/div>\n
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Packages I intend to install (at a minimum):<\/div>\n
OpenOffice.org (Newest stable release)<\/div>\n
Ogrelib (Newest stable release)<\/div>\n
Blender (Newest available release)<\/div>\n
Gimp (Newest Stable)<\/div>\n
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Before installing Blender of course, I will insure that my Python interpreter is up to date.<\/div>\n
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My goal is to have my development environment properly set up before I go\u00a0offline the next time.\u00a0\u00a0 The next offline period may be a long one.\u00a0 Having a proper development environment to play with will help to keep me distracted. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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Ok, this is what I have been up too, and what my status is. I have been doing a total rebuild of the Linux system on my laptop. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “What distro is the lazy blogger using this week?” one might ask. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Why LFS of course!” Now, for those who know what LFS is, the … Continue reading “Status Report”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,34,38,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fellowtravelers.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fellowtravelers.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fellowtravelers.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fellowtravelers.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fellowtravelers.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fellowtravelers.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/fellowtravelers.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fellowtravelers.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fellowtravelers.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fellowtravelers.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}