<story><title>I Built Linux from Scratch</title><url>https://thesloth.me/posts/5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Daegalus</author><text>I did LFS back when I was a pre-teen&amp;#x2F;teen. So late 90s, early 00s. And while I agree to an extent that it doesn&amp;#x27;t give you much day-to-day stuff, it really makes you more comfortable with operating systems and linux especially.&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, I am a devops&amp;#x2F;infrastructure engineer, and I can say LFS is a core foundational experience that has let me be better at my job. I know deeper inner workings of a Linux distro and that strong foundation helps. Yes there is so much more to learn but having LFS in your back pocket of lifetime experiences is great.&lt;p&gt;I also think its a 1 and done kind of thing. I don&amp;#x27;t see a huge benefit of doing it again. Maybe for fun, in a VM while waiting for other things to finish. It is also much faster nowadays. Back when I did it, I had a 1ghz, 256gb ram machine, it took me days. I could probably go through it in a day casually with modern computing, and especially since I have a threadripper machine, sending 64 threads at the make commands im sure will get my 1 BU to be a very small number.&lt;p&gt;If you have a child that is interested in computers, tech, programming, etc. I highly encourage this activity. Could be a fun bonding activity too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>I almost did it in 2008ish. Back then my country had a severe electricity crises, and in the summer we would get alternately one hour of electricity and one hour of blackout.&lt;p&gt;So I had to try and break the LFS build into one hour chunks. Though I got through quite a bit, unfortunately, there were some multihour build steps and I never got lucky enough with multihour electricity, till I finally lost interest.&lt;p&gt;I did learn quite a bit from reading the manual though.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Built Linux from Scratch</title><url>https://thesloth.me/posts/5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Daegalus</author><text>I did LFS back when I was a pre-teen&amp;#x2F;teen. So late 90s, early 00s. And while I agree to an extent that it doesn&amp;#x27;t give you much day-to-day stuff, it really makes you more comfortable with operating systems and linux especially.&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, I am a devops&amp;#x2F;infrastructure engineer, and I can say LFS is a core foundational experience that has let me be better at my job. I know deeper inner workings of a Linux distro and that strong foundation helps. Yes there is so much more to learn but having LFS in your back pocket of lifetime experiences is great.&lt;p&gt;I also think its a 1 and done kind of thing. I don&amp;#x27;t see a huge benefit of doing it again. Maybe for fun, in a VM while waiting for other things to finish. It is also much faster nowadays. Back when I did it, I had a 1ghz, 256gb ram machine, it took me days. I could probably go through it in a day casually with modern computing, and especially since I have a threadripper machine, sending 64 threads at the make commands im sure will get my 1 BU to be a very small number.&lt;p&gt;If you have a child that is interested in computers, tech, programming, etc. I highly encourage this activity. Could be a fun bonding activity too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lrvick</author><text>IMO a secure server is an immutable appliance. I still build Linux from scratch most weeks as a core part of my job.&lt;p&gt;Bare bones hardened kernel + shim init + target application are all you need, and will be your highest security&amp;#x2F;reliability systems.&lt;p&gt;And yeah, threadrippers are a must.</text></comment>