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It's been around two decades since I last did an LFS install, but I still find the knowledge I gained to be useful to understanding how boot loaders, the kernel
by organsnyder 3y ago
It's been around two decades since I last did an LFS install, but I still find the knowledge I gained to be useful to understanding how boot loaders, the kernel, init systems, etc. work today—not just bare metal and VMs, but also in containerized environments.
- varikin 3y agoI spent a couple weeks planning a LFS install about 20 years ago. I then didn't have time to look at it all for about year, so I never went through with it. But I still learned a lot just documenting all steps and preparing with the worse case of not having decent internet if something went wrong.
- placatedmayhem 3y agoSame. Any time I'm asked a question like "How can I better understand Linux?" by someone new, I tell the person asking to do LFS and to take the time to understand it. Even some long-time system admins and software devs would benefit greatly.
- ghotli 3y agoSame, I'm closing in on twenty years since I did it on a Pentium 2 (which took a very long time to compile). But in a matter of weeks I had my own linux router that I built from scratch. I was too much of a novice to completely understand everything I did but over time the puzzle pieces fit together and I realized it was just about the most solid foundation I could have engaged in. I'd suggest it to anyone that interacts with Linux and the time requirement to compile everything is far, far less than it was years back.
- smitty1e 3y agoI regularly point the n00bs to this site to level up.