Current release: a299 – September 16th, 2024
September 6th, 2024
Sometime down the road, this book will no longer be updated on this site (https://zeckmathederg.github.io/glfs) and its current repo (https://github.com/Zeckmathederg/glfs).
Development will switch over to the repo https://github.com/glfs-book/glfs after all the current issues in the current repo are completed, so it may take a while before this switch will happen. Please make new issues on the new repo and they will be dealt with afterwards.
As for the site, it will be decided when the time is ready and this book will display where the updated one is.
This is all done to make things more professional and to separate the project from my account. I also have plans that will make things more interesting.
- Zeckma
June 16th, 2024
I'm back and working on this book again. Simple announcement but this will do.
- Zeckma
June 14th, 2024
I will be going on an indefinite hiatus. Disappointed and bummed out. The subsection of Shared Dependencies named "Drivers" is shotty and current instructions don't always work. Read issue ( #6) on which issues are present.
I don't have an estimate for how long I will be out. I just need time away from this project and not have to worry about LLVM, Rust, and Meson. I may accept pull requests.
- Zeckma
June 4th, 2024
In each page involving packages and their installation, there is a section called "Package Information," including various information such as the download link(s), download size, and estimated build time.
Over the next few days, this section will be removed from every page. The download links will remain in each page. "Download size," "Download MD5 Sum," "Estimated disk space required," and "Estimated build time" will be removed.
When packages are updated, all this information has to be checked, measured, and updated, demanding a lot of work to maintain everything. The removal of the "Package Information" section will make things much more manageable. Not to mention, I am terrible at maintaining projects as it is. SBUs are also good to know for each package but it can take a lot of time to measure and calculate the SBUs for each package. I cannot provide accurate SBU timing at this time. On a Ryzen 5 1600 (has 6 cores and 12 threads), when typing and copy+pasting commands, going through the entire book took me 35 hours. If you have an application or script that can parse GLFS and run the commands automatically, the time will be comparable to Gentoo.
Not the best of announcements, not the best of news. Sorry but this will help me maintain this book better.
- Zeckma
June 1st, 2024
This was made in anticipation for a few updates to come out, making changes that might be seen as weird or controversial. This offers as a section to explain those changes. Change Log doesn't provide a good format to explain why commits and changes are being made, but rather just what changes were made.
- Zeckma