For those of you who don’t know, Linux From Scratch is a project that teaches you how to compile your own custom distro, with everything compiled from source code.

What was your experience like? Was it easier or harder than you expected? Do you run it as a daily driver or did you just do it for fun?

  • BrewchinEnglish
    7•2 months ago

    TIL this is a thing. I started doing that over 30 years ago with SLS and Slackware when that was the only choice.

    This was pre-PnP (also pre-JPEG!), so you had to know all the addresses, IRQs, DMA info, etc, of your hardware or you’d get… unexpected results. make it and they will come…

    After countless distros and flavours over the years, I still use Debian for servers and now use EndeavourOS for desktop/laptops.

    • @sudo42English
      1•2 months ago

      This was pre-PnP (also pre-JPEG!), so you had to know all the addresses, IRQs, DMA info, etc, of your hardware

      Thanks for that flashback. <shiver>