Linux From Scratch 5.1-pre1 Development

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Linux From Scratch 5.1-pre1 Development
- Instructions to create your own custom Linux system from scratch.

About:
The Linux From Scratch project is intended for Linux users who want to
build their own custom Linux system. Reasons for wanting to build such a
system are diverse. Perhaps you want to get into more detail as to what
happens behind the scenes. Perhaps you are fed up with the bloated
standard distributions. Or perhaps you don't want to rely on pre-compiled
binaries out of concerns for security.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes
License: BSD License (original)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxfromscratch/
Homepage: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

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Gordon
 
Gordon said:
Linux From Scratch 5.1-pre1 Development
- Instructions to create your own custom Linux system from scratch.

About:
The Linux From Scratch project is intended for Linux users who want to
build their own custom Linux system. Reasons for wanting to build such a
system are diverse. Perhaps you want to get into more detail as to what
happens behind the scenes. Perhaps you are fed up with the bloated
standard distributions. Or perhaps you don't want to rely on pre-compiled
binaries out of concerns for security.
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Eww. That's the most unappealing description of a Linux
distribution I've read.
"Bloated" and "security concerns" are terms usually
associated with Microsoft when discussing operating systems.
 
on pre-compiled binaries out of concerns for security.
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Eww. That's the most unappealing description of a Linux
distribution I've read.
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"Bloated" and "security concerns" are terms usually
associated with Microsoft when discussing operating systems.
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Well, there are some purists who love the command line so much they
don't even want X on their machine. And there are people so paranoid
they don' t trust any software they haven't personally inspected and
compiled. (There were a couple cases where people tried to bug some
major OSS packages like Sendmail.)

Mostly, though, Linux From Scratch is for people who really want to
get into the guts of Linux and learn every detail of how a distro is
put together or who want a truly lean-and-mean stripped-down distro.

Definitely not for newbies.

But it's nice that Linux is an OS that can do this. Try "stripping
down" Windows.
 
Richard Steven Hack said:
Mostly, though, Linux From Scratch is for people who really want to
get into the guts of Linux and learn every detail of how a distro is
put together or who want a truly lean-and-mean stripped-down distro.
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I am using winlinux and I am trying to use Linux From Scratch.
The UMSDOS file format has some big advantages as being a bridge from
windows to linux.

You can continue to use your familiar windows file manager and text editor
while building up the linux system.
Softboot into linux and do things like compiling, reboot back into windows
and study the results.

To use LFS you need a host system, they say, and winlinux is perfect for
that as it uses the same file system, umsdos.

I am not sure that a host system is really necessary, an umsdos system
loaded with LFS could work. There are binaries for the most inportant
compilers included.
If not they can be downloaded from the web.

It is interesting to explore a simple way to learn to set up a linux system
on a windows system, because it opens up a way to go for many windows
users.
 
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