For those of you who don’t know, Linux From Scratch is a project that teaches you how to compile your own custom distro, with everything compiled from source code.

What was your experience like? Was it easier or harder than you expected? Do you run it as a daily driver or did you just do it for fun?

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    7 months ago

    The consensus seems to be: go for it for the learning experience.

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      7 months ago

      I would agree. It’s useful to know all the parts of a GNU/Linux system fit together. But the maintenance can be quite heavy in terms of security updates. So I’d advise to do it as a project, but not to actually make real use of unless you want to dedicate time going forwards to it.

      For a compiled useful experience gentoo handles updates and doing all the work for you.

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        7 months ago

        Gentoo’s USE flags are fuckin’ amazing.