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Linux From Scratch 7.1 Published
Thinkcloud writes "The Linux From Scratch (LFS) project has published version 7.1 of its manual for building a custom Linux installation. The new release of the step-by-step instructions is 345 pages long and uses more up-to-date components than previous versions – for example, the 3.2.6 Linux kernel and version 4.6.2 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The update also includes fixes to bootscripts and corrections to the text, as well as updates to 20 packages."
Building the kernel with icc is trivially easy, it does not replace gnu userland however.
When I ran gentoo it was trivial to setup a whitelist of packages to use ICC on, instead of gcc.
How about a button to collapse a comment thread? Stick a little toggle button to each displayed comment to collapse/expand it and its children comments.
It would make it easier to skip over off-topic pedantic comment threads (or whatever thread the reader prefer to disregard) that often run interminably long while burying more germane comments far down in the page.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Ten years ago i was an enthusiast of lfs, and i even made a Makefile for automated build of lfs... It was an extremely fun thing to do, and opened my eyes and made me understand that Slackware was the only prebuild distro that anyone should ever need for home use.
I agree completely. I built an LFS system many years ago just to better understand the process a distribution goes through and to get a better grasp of the overall software components and build approaches used by Linux systems overall.
It was a highly educational experience, but I'll stick with Debian-based systems that use APT updates, thank you very much. While educational to roll your own installation, rolling your own updates is incredibly time consuming.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.