Mailinglists and archives

lfs-discuss

The lfs-discuss mailinglist discusses matters strictly related to the LFS-BOOK. If you have problems with the book, want to report a bug or two or have suggestions to improve the book, use this mailinglist.

Compilation problems, questions how to configure a piece of software and such are to be posted to the lfs-config or lfs-apps mailinglist. To find out what kind of questions go to which of the two lists you can read in the descriptions for those two lists.

lfs-config

The lfs-config list discusses problems with compiling, installing and configuring software that is used in the LFS-BOOK.

Problems with compiling, installing or configuring programs that didn't give problems on a non-LFS system are discussed on the lfs-apps list. If your problem doesn't fit on the lfs-config or lfs-apps mailinglist, please use the linux mailinglist.

lfs-apps

The lfs-apps list discussed the compilation and configuration of software that's not used in this book. The list is mainly used when you have problems installing software on an LFS system when you don't have problems compiling it on your normal distribution. It's not that LFS is incompatible with "normal" distributions but just the fact that you might be missing support-software that programs need or need to configure a few things on your new LFS system.

If you had problems with software on non-LFS systems as well, please use the linux mailinglist for help.

lfs-announce

The lfs-announce list is a moderated list. You can subscribe to it, but you can't post any messages to this list. This list is used to announce new stable releases. If you want to be informed about development releases as well then you'll have to join the lfs-discuss list. If you're already on the lfs-discuss list there's little use subscribing to this list as well because everything that is posted to the lfs-announce list will be posted to the lfs-discuss list as well.

linux

The linux list is a general Linux discussion list that handles everything that has got anything to do with Linux in any way, shape and form. Ocasionally we discuss the price of beer as well.

alfs-discuss

The alfs-discuss list discusses the development of ALFS which stands for Automated LinuxFromScratch. The goal of this project is to develop an installation tool that can install an LFS system automatically for you. It's main goal is to speed up compilation by taking away your need to manually enter the commands to configure, compile and install packages.

alfs-docs

ALFS-docs is the ALFS documentation project which creates and maintains all of the ALFS documentation.

alfs-ipc

The alfs-ipc list discusses the ALFS InterProcess Communication issues.

alfs-license

The alfs-license list discusses ALFS license issues.

alfs-pr

The alfs-pr list discusses ALFS Public Relations issues.

alfs-profile

The alfs-profile list discusses the development of the ALFS XML profile and DTD.

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Mail archives

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