cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15150206
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?
This sounds really fun! I’m putting this on my long to-do list
This is exactly the situation 😅
It should be called the WISHFUL list. It stands for “Wildly Improbable Scenarios Happening Unbelievably Far in the Unseen Later”.
renaming my todo list xd. Or actually, I’m not at my pc rn, so I’ll put this on my list.
This is the way.
I ACTUALLY FORGOT XDD
watch me do it again tho, caz I’m hungry. So my next activity is going be eating, not renaming.
LOL. Far in the unseen later, it is then.
I did Gentoo Stage 1 (which was very similiar to what you plan to do) in 2005 with a shitty laptop. 24 hours until I had a working shell compiled. A whole week until I had a graphical desktop working properly. Stupid me didn’t have enough and did it again in 2013 with better hardware within just 36 hours to the desktop.
If you seek a challenge that leaves you with angelic patience once you’ve overcome the never ending rages you’ll encounter to push through to the end against all odds, lots of errors, bad documentation, dependencies from hell AND keeping it running, which will inevitably raise your patience muscles strength again and again, then yes, do it. Just accept that at some point, something will break inside you.
I did the same around 2005-6. I had plenty and never did it again.
