> isn't LfS all about the basics of the distro than building a fully fledged system? Not at all, and I'm not sure why so many people have this perception. It's

> isn't LfS all about the basics of the distro than building a fully fledged system? Not at all, and I'm not sure why so many people have this perception. It's never been this way. LFS is the tutorial you follow to get a full GNU/Linux system. In LFS, not having a base that can theoretically support the latest desktop environments is considered a fatal bug. It's just a conventional distro but in document format. This is good for its comprehensiveness and as a way of documenting what existing Linux distros are doing, but it limits its utility as a learning aid as well as for embedded development. Most people interested in barebones Linux should instead start with a kernel and busybox and ignore most GNU packages.