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Making bespoke linux distros should be quite a good fit for LLM agents, especially given the recent results with the LLM-authored web browser.
It was during my great "Try all the Linux" period, and I had trouble with it compiling on my slackware system, but it compiled just fine on my red hat system (before RHEL)
It was a toy for me, I built it just to see if I could, built it a few times, but was running red hat or slackware as my daily driver.
During that period I also tried the BSDs, Free, Dragonfly, Net, and Open
It was so much fun getting the hang of how each OS differed, the nuances, the ins and outs.
(FTR, I switched to Ubuntu late 2005, and haven't moved since - apt is/was the best thing since recycled electrons)
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Yup, it's where I got a lot of my linux knowledge. I think that Gentoo or even Arch would provide pretty close to the same education level, though, with a lot less time to install.
Other point is long time maintainability as well.. Like unistalling stuff you don't need etc. Or LFS solves it?
It was super neat when I got it running for a while, but young me that did it really didn't understand the concept of "Ok, but now you need to upgrade things". That was some of my first experiences with the pain of a glibc update and going "ohhh, that's why people don't run these sorts of systems".
Is it educational to do this on a VM or should I break out my old thinkpad?
These days the ARM64 processor on the Raspberry Pi 5 is probably fast enough to just build natively on it, no cross-compilation necessary. Cross-compiling adds a metric ton of complexity.
In the next part, I hope I can write a kernel from scratch, haha.
Amazon link https://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementati...
I had a lot of fun doing LFS plus a bit of BLFS and then I adapted it to my memory safe linux project https://fil-c.org/pizlix
Is it educational to do this on a VM or should I break out my old thinkpad?
Targeting a known set of virtual devices makes a lot of things much easier when building LFS. Dev ux is also much nicer:, you get faster restarts, a socket and optional snapshots to go back to a known less broken state.
Moved to native Linux on the desktop a few weeks ago after 15+ years of using Linux on the server and spending a majority of my time in WSL in Windows for the last decade.
I've learned so many new things in this short period of time. Tracing down memory leaks with GPU processes, misbehaving GPU drivers, power saving modes, etc..
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