Re: Starter distribution

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 13:23 +0000, Adrian Fisher wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I bought a new laptop in November (HP Pavilion dv6-6002sa Entertainment 
> Notebook) and wish to start working on LFS 7.0 on it (replacing the 
> existing OS with Linux).  What distribution is most recommended to use 
> as a base?  I plan to start off with replacing Windows with a general 
> distribution but to put Windows back on in a virtual machine through 
> Virtual Box for work purposes.  I wish to create my new distribution as 
> another virtual machine which I plan to use to replace the host OS when 
> it is ready and I know more about what I'm doing.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> A.


Usually, I make anything work with gentoo linux (and that mean, no
computer I ever encounter didn't work with gentoo Linux) and so,
recommend their livedvd because I compiled linux distributions with them
since 2003 including uclibc's buildroot (see
http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ ).

Alain

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