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> Our goal is to produce a small, sleek system well-suited for hosting containers or being employed as a virtual machine. This is probably one of the few use c

> Our goal is to produce a small, sleek system well-suited for hosting containers or being employed as a virtual machine. This is probably one of the few use cases where building your own linux distro is a sensible idea. Other projects like LFS encourage desktop users to build their own linux-distro, which is beyond insanity in my opinion. Keeping an LFS system up to date with security patches should be virtually impossible unless you set aside a decent portion of your daily free time for this task, which probably nobody is willing to do. I can see how building your own linux distro is educational and fun, but in terms of security and maintenance it is an absolute nightmare.

czep 9y ago
> Keeping an LFS system up to date with security patches should be virtually impossible unless you set aside a decent portion of your daily free time for this task It's really not that hard once you know what software is actually on your system. LFS enforces discipline because you're less likely to blindly install hundreds of useless packages just because your distro bundles them. On a nice svelte system, all you need to do is monitor a few mailing lists and decide if something is worth upgrading. More often than not, you'll be able to patch your systems faster than a distro will be able to release an update, because the source is in your hands at the same time.