I have used CLFS (Cross-Linux From Scratch) in the past a couple of times to build a Linux system for Sun UltraSPARC and SGI Octane systems. The things I learn

I have used CLFS (Cross-Linux From Scratch) in the past a couple of times to build a Linux system for Sun UltraSPARC and SGI Octane systems. The things I learned, especially about cross-compiling, were invaluable, but you do have to invest some time understanding everything (even reading patches that you have to apply on top of build tools, for example) to get the most out of it. If you just copy/paste commands, well then there are faster/easier ways to get Linux up and running Edit: I just noted that CLFS has been dead for a couple of years now, which is sad. I would have loved to try an updated CLFS