Linux from Scratch First Impressions: Waste Of Time?

I've been wanting to go through Linux from Scratch for quite a while and we recently started doing so on stream and I've got to say the experience has certainly been interesting.

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0:00 Introduction
0:46 What Is LFS
4:28 Partioning Issue
6:06 LFS Isn't Hard
7:57 Streaming LFS Is Weird
9:51 What I'm Building On
11:24 Why Not On Hardware
13:13 Is LFS Worth It
16:00 Outro

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[Flash]

The only thing that's difficult with LFS is that you don't rely on a package manager. You ARE the Package Manager.

[bob]

And here I was, thinking that gentoo was the last level...

Next stream series: writing yout own UNIX kernel xD

[WalkingGabrage]

This man is slowly transforming into Richard Stallman, both mentally and physically

[FrancoBugnano]

I installed LFS some 20 years ago. It was a very educational experience that I recommend anyone doing exactly one time in their life. If you do it more than once you're crazy though.
Also, it took me about 2 weeks to do from start to finish.

[esra_erimez]

I find a man that can install Linux From Scratch wildly attractive

[redgeoblaze]

I want to make a Distro called DarkSoulsOS. Where the documentation is all just full of metaphors, and riddles to tell you what to do, and it's full of all sorts of arbitrary roadblocks and aliases to stop you from setting the system up properly until you get to the end of this whole puzzle game where you get root password.
That's my idea of a hard OS.
I could even include some little games that reveal a password to the next step when beaten.

[TheBlueThird]

It's a full time job maintaining a distro.

[drizerreal]

I think people do LFS for the same reason a car enthousiast works on a custom build classic Chevie or Mustang: its the journey not the destination and crafting something that is unique to your needs

[mabster]

I did LFS and BLFS about a year ago to the point of getting KDE Plasma 5 working. I don't actually use that system anymore, but I had a ton of fun putting it together and I learned a bunch about Linux. I think that LFS is a great project for advanced beginner/intermediate users who want to take it to the next level

[muradbashirov]

>I need another 10 hours for chapter 8
>don't know that only compilation of gcc will take 10 hours

[replikvltyoutube]

Linux from Scratch is interesting in the scenario of compiling for specific CPU complete system. Interesting how performance would turn out.

[obake]

LFS was my first distro and it was my daily driver for a couple years. Took a long time to get something usable for the first time, but later on i had scripts I could run and walk away for a couple hours while they built the chroot environment, then the final system, then KDE, then various applications.

Because it's so well documented it can be a great tool for learning how Linux distributions are built from the ground up, how they work, and how to use them. But only if your insane, stubborn, and have a lot of patience.

[aumpauskar]

Btw I use LFS is the ultimate flex in the Linux community

[TMRick]

I did LFS and it was a great experience, absolutely loved it. Not really hard if you read the book with attention and understand some basics about Linux and operating systems in general. Messed up a little bit on configuring the boot on UEFI with GRUB, (problems with the kernel's path and the fstab file, instructions in BLFS are not really clear at some points on when we should put a command in the host environment or the LFS installation using chroot). Really useful to learn about the Linux structure and how the packages relate with each other. It would be great to see someone update this project with an introduction to package management, and how to build one from scratch (or atleast the basics to encourage the user to create one with Shell Scripts, C, Python or another language). On the host system, try to use a distro that has great support and packages to build software from source, to avoid some potential dependency problems.

[RocketCityTim]

No waste of time - you're now 6 hours smarter about how Linux comes together.

[AndrewErwin]

I learned so much about how operating systems (not just Linux) work. It was a great experience for me. I really hope that one day I will actually run Linux that I built myself. As impractical as it might be, how anti soydev would it be to run a Linux "distro" that no one else can even get?

[shellgecko]

totally worth it at least for me, I'm getting into embedded systems and embedded linux as well so once you know how to build linux on x86 or x64 the process for other architectures is the same
the only thing you have to deal is the cross compilers (the board manufacture can give them or you can build them from scratch)

[tmendoza]

this is awesome we need a LFS party see who drops first

[MrFunny]

Tried doing LFS today. Spent 8 hours to boot into the system and for it to be usable. For shits and giggles tried to install APT. Installed, and made probably the biggest rookie mistake of putting debian repo. So the first apt install made my system a debian distro. Worth it.

[unfa]

Awesome work, Brodie!

Actually I have one criticism. You actually overuse one word. You actually don't need that word. So it'd actually be an improvement if you actually got rid of it.

Rock on!