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Linux is at least half about learning how to compile from source. Look at number of people who don't know how, think it's "hard", etc. If you don't know how t
by njharman 14y ago
Linux is at least half about learning how to compile from source. Look at number of people who don't know how, think it's "hard", etc.
If you don't know how to compile, solve dependencies/minor issues, etc. You don't know Linux.
- agumonkey 14y agoI started writing that I guess I don't know Linux and missed the information LFS conveys. But I can't shake the feeling that I learned more about independent toolchain than about the OS, and I'm lost trying to understand why a CLI http browser refuse to access some domains for no apparent reason. I'll read BLFS to see if some part of the knowledge I'm looking is there.
- chimeracoder 14y agoWhat do you mean by 'independent toolchain'? And what part of the OS were you looking to learn about? Remember that LFS, despite the name, is not about learning Linux-the-kernel, it's about learning 'Linux-the-operating-system' (which is more precisely referred to as GNU - using 'Linux' to refer to the OS is technically incorrect, though very widespread). Most of the time this is just a point of either pedantry or politics, but if you want to build your OS from scratch, you really need the entire toolchain[1] if you want to build a 'usable' system. [1] You can sub parts of other toolchains, so I guess the more correct answer is that you need an entire toolchain, with the GNU tools being the de-facto default toolchain.
- agumonkey 14y agoAgreed the toolchain is a requirement. But you raise the problem, what LFS teaches you Linux or 'From Scratch' ? I[1] didn't learn about the kernel nor the operating system there. Only about package building. The OS remain a mystery to me for most of its part. See my example about elinks problems. [1] I probably read LFS with the wrong mindset ..