Build your own Linux

Re:Build your own Linux by zengid on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @12:44PM (#15028958)

Funny how I was just looking for something like this. Just finished a whirlwind summer semester using Gentoo in a course on Linux admin, so I've been wanting to dig in a bit deeper.

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Re:Build your own Linux by pfranz on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @01:50PM (#15029547)

Back in my day it was http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Anyone familiar enough with both to know the difference? I used the LFS docs recently when trying to build a custom version of GCC.

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Re:Build your own Linux by joshumax on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:24PM (#15030379)

Looks like this site may go into some more detail of how the specific packages interact to create a "standard" Linux distribution more than the LFS series does; but I'm not sure how much has changed regarding that in recent times... Even the faded BLFS book I was gifted in 6th grade seems to be more focused on just getting the packages built and installed into the LFS root than going in depth about their internals/function. Even though tools like buildroot/OE/Yocto offer much better tools to make a Linux from scratch, I think both of these offer a great way to quickly gain at least some insight into Linux + userspace

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Re:Build your own Linux by erikb on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @06:15PM (#15031831)

Honestly there are loads of projects where people don't analyse the existing solutions and just start, you know, from scratch.

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