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When building your own linux system following the instructions on the LFS web site, how recent should your current linux kernel and/or system be?

Is one distro better for this than another?

I would be gratful for any info on this.

I guess I'm confused. Wouldn't building your own linux system from scratch mean NOT using one of the standard distrobutions?

FYI: You can start a flame war easily by asking which distro is "better."

I'd say use freebsd or netbsd depending on what you want to do. If you have to go with a linux install, I'd say make it one of the "biggies." They are pretty much all free for download, if you have the bandwidth for it. I'd go with red hat, mandrake or debian personally.

The purpose of the LFS (Linux From Scratch) website is to show you how to build your own distro compleatly from the source code of the GNU apps and the Linux kernel. The way they have you do this is by using an already existing system to make a temporary system from the linux packages and then build your system using the tempary one.

Here is their web address: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Select a mirror from the page that comes up and that will take you to their home page.

I hope this clears up any confusion.

Man, that looks like so much fun... build your own custom OS.

Straylight wrote:Man, that looks like so much fun... build your own custom OS.

I never got very far. SuSE 7.3 was being a real pain in the neck when I tried to compile the packages in it. I was wondering...do I need to install a newer system or just update the kernal and a few other packages?

If you've never done it before, I'd say go with an easy to install OS. Notice I didn't mention suse in my list of systems that might be a good starting point....

Seriously, if you can find an old version of RedHat somewhere (there's only what, 75 million world wide?!?) I'd say start there. Unless your hardware is new, then I'd go with the newest RH you can find.

Custom OS...Hey