Welcome to Linux From Scratch

#1

Post by donnut » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 8:43 AM UTC

Welcome to Linux From Scratch
linuxfromscratch.org

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

#2

Post by roymabookie » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 8:52 AM UTC

How long would it take a noob to do this? hours? days? years?

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by tompko » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 8:59 AM UTC

roymabookie wrote: post #2

How long would it take a noob to do this? hours? days? years?

The instructions are very clear and easy to follow, depending on your specs it takes a few days to compile everything. Certainly a week would be enough time.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by maximveksler » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 8:59 AM UTC

roymabookie wrote: post #2

How long would it take a noob to do this? hours? days? years?

When I was just starting with Linux I did it in a week. Most time was spend on waiting for compilations. Second time hug was exploring and learning about stuff that was mentioned.

If you just want to follow the instructions, it's a no brainier in terms that you can do it from start to finish with minimal prior knowledge.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by qznc » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 9:03 AM UTC

I learned a lot by building a working desktop system this way. However, I quickly switched to something else, once it came to updating parts.

If my memory is right, I switched to Gentoo afterwards, because it also had this compile-from-source philosophy.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by saurabh » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 9:07 AM UTC

I had installed LFS years ago and it was fun. Later I tried Gentoo and then Arch Linux(which I currently use). It was a good learning experience.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by octotoad » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 9:32 AM UTC

Hate to post a comment just to be negative, but, I seriously can't believe this has appeared on the front page of a site like HN.

"Welcome to"?. LFS is so old that I would assume any self proclaimed geek/hacker would've already been aware of it. It has existed for over ten years.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by nitrogen » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 9:34 AM UTC

octotoad wrote: post #7

Hate to post a comment just to be negative, but, I seriously can't believe this has appeared on the front page of a site like HN. "Welcome to"?. LFS is so old that I would assume any self proclaimed geek/hacker would've already been aware of it. It has existed for over ten years.

At the rate people are being born, coming of age, going to school, etc., there's always someone who's new to something (https://xkcd.com/1053/).

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by nitrogen » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 9:36 AM UTC

roymabookie wrote: post #2

How long would it take a noob to do this? hours? days? years?

It'd probably take about a week for a noob to get a reasonable desktop up and running with LFS or Gentoo, but that week will be some of the most valuable education about software build processes and operating system design one can find.

Re: Welcome to Linux From Scratch

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Post by subhro » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 9:40 AM UTC

LFS definitely provides an excellent learning opportunity to the beginner. However, I think, considering the clarity of the available documentation, there is little to "think".

Having said that, I have always considered LFS to be a kind of personal linux. For running on servers, I think Gentoo would be the closest to LFS and having well matured tools and package management.