I just put forward this question about a month ago. The short answer
seems to be "not quite/depends on the task" See:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2004/10/22/0001.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2004/10/22/0003.html
and
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2004/10/26/0005.html

Cheers,
-alex



On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:31:49 +0200, Dmitry Ivanov <dimss@solutions.lv> wrote:
> What is LFS status? Is it usable for real tasks?
>
> --
> ...python is just now at 2.4? perl is 3.6 better!
>