X from the sources

[Valter Nogueira]

I don't want to use the resulting machine to work or in production.

It is just for research - after all what is the point of having free access
to source code and never understand it.

I will consider gentoo.

thanks

Valter

2012/2/14 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>

> On 14 February 2012 00:54, Valter Nogueira <valter at fastway.com.br> wrote:
> > have you installed X from the sources or from a Ubuntu repository?
>
> Just from the repos. I will go out of my way to avoid compiling from
> source if at all possible. I was using Linux actively 15 years ago and
> have no wish at all to go back to those days.
>
> If you want to build stuff from scratch, I don't think Ubuntu is the
> distro to start on. Partly, it's not its aim; partly there's no real
> point; partly it's too easy; and partly because you won't be able to
> install Ubuntu packages onto the result as the lower-level
> dependencies will be missing.
>
> Gentoo is the obvious one, or perhaps Arch or even Slackware. Or
> abandon Linux altogether and try FreeBSD. All these are more
> source-oriented, AIUI.
>
>
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