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Linux From Scratch gets even more into the weeds. My arc was gentoo -> lfs -> arch Linux when I realized I didn’t want to fiddle as much.
by yellow_postit 3y ago
Linux From Scratch gets even more into the weeds.
My arc was gentoo -> lfs -> arch Linux when I realized I didn’t want to fiddle as much.
- yellowapple 3y agoSlackware comes pretty close, too. Yeah, you can use the TUI installer... but Slackware packages are pretty much just tarballs that you could extract directly onto / (plus an extra folder for metadata and post-install scripts). Starting with a bare-minimum Linux install and extracting enough packages one-by-one to get slackpkg working is a fun exercise (one which I've indeed done on everything from various LXC-based budget VPSs to old thin clients with disk space in the hundreds of MB at best).
- fouc 3y agomy arc was slackware -> gentoo -> arch. very similar vibes across them all I thought.
- yellowapple 3y agoThat's indeed why I lump them together as the "SAG Trifecta".
- nickstinemates 3y agoSimilar arc, but have fiddled with them all. These days most of my machines are arch(btw) or Alpine.
- leidenfrost 3y agoMy experience with LFS is checking a few makefiles, the doing ./configure && male && make install because I got tired os checking everything by hand. Personally, gentoo is nice because, once you know your way, you can do a big emerge and go get a coffe while it compiles everything.
- bigpeopleareold 3y agoI started to go through LFS, but with the intent of scripting it. What ultimately though slowed me down to a halt was a persistent VirtualBox issue I couldn't solve. But I think I just easily jump back into it now :D