Linux From Scratch
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6recommend
2warn against
Nov 30, 2025first mention
Sep 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Decided to give it a shot as a learning journey. So far it's been fun, I learned about a bunch of stuff”
“I feel that I’ve learned a lot by following those recipes”
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Caveats and dissent
“don't waste you time building from scratch. There is very little utility”
Linux daily driver for 25+ yearson “Linux from Scratch”
“Slackware and LFS are the Haskells of the Linux distribution world.”
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All comments 13
“Decided to give it a shot as a learning journey. So far it's been fun, I learned about a bunch of stuff”
“I feel that I’ve learned a lot by following those recipes”
“And then continue with reading LFS.”
“The last release of the no longer maintained sysvinit version is here”
“I use it a lot for package management/bootstrapping/cross compilation experiments”
“As for Linux from Scratch - This is something that's been on my radar”
“It definitely is. See the bootscripts”
“LFS/BLFS has better documentation”
“don't waste you time building from scratch. There is very little utility”
“Slackware and LFS are the Haskells of the Linux distribution world.”
“This is such an awesome project.”
“I always recommend going through this for those that want a deeper understanding of linux, the kernel, and all its accoutrements.”
“LFS/BLFS is active”