It can be a first step to creating a new distribution, but most people just do it as a learning experience. Here's one example though of someone who went on to

It can be a first step to creating a new distribution, but most people just do it as a learning experience. Here's one example though of someone who went on to create a new distribution: http://www.nutyx.org/en/ http://www.nutyx.org/en/ To create a distribution, you need a package manager of some sort to manage software updates, and while LFS discusses some possible package managers that's not really its focus.