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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."
...I didn't want to see the girlfriend this weekend anyway.
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LFS is a great learning process that shows you exactly WHAT makes your Linux tick, and what packages depend on eachother. Anyone who uses Linux should do it at least once.
And really, it is not that difficult.. if you follow the guide it is very unlikely you will have problems. And on modern hardware the compile is very fast.
I dare someone to try this without gcc compiler and gnu userland.
fuck off, RMS.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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.
There's a PDF and an HTML version of their manual. With the advent of eBook readers like the Kindle, you think they'd release an eBook version. ePub is more open than Kindle's .mobi, but even an ePub version is easily convertible to .mobi.
Well, scratch would appear to have support for a clock, and a NOR gate, so an x86 compatible scratch VM is only your sanity away...
What do you want differently than what clicking ont he subject does?
Go green: turn off your refrigerator.
In theory you should be able to build kernel with intel compiler.
You can build it with clang too. And if you wished the entire userland could be non-FSF as it is in Android. Android uses a BSD licenced C runtime called BIONIC. There are other C runtimes which I assume someone could port, as well as the likes of uClibc which is LGPL but isn't owned by the FSF and could be coupled with Busybox for a userland. Depends on what a person is trying to build of course.
LFS can typically be built from any Linux host system - a Knoppix CD or a liveCD for any other distro would probably work.
Or you could just check the host requirements.
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People that knows that servers exists, do care. Maybe people with dozens of servers would like to learn
If you think that *real work* can be done just with iPads and macbooks, you don't know what real work is.
I love my Mac, but I love my Debian servers too. There's a world out there beyond desktop computers, iTunes and Mail. And by the way, there are better browsers than Safari.
You're coming as close as you can to building Linux on a bare machine without manually inputing machine code - the purpose of the host machine is to give you things like:
* a running kernel
* a shell
* a C compiler
* a linker
* The standard C libraries
* Some very basic text processing tools, like awk and sed
* A way to download the source code
* A way to set up a file system on the disk
IIRC, Linus Torvalds used an existing Unix for most of this when he was first writing Linux.
The first steps involve setting up a completely empty partition, then compiling the C library (glibc), linker (binutils), C compiler (gcc), a shell (bash), and a few other tools. Then you chroot onto the partition you just set up and work in your chroot jail, with the only dependency on the original distro being the running kernel. Once you get to the point of having a bootable system, you leave the original distro completely behind.
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