Comments by "Cestarian Inhabitant" (@cestarianinhabitant5898) on "The Daily Blob"
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You know... might as well use gentoo, if one wants to learn to build linux from scratch I think learning to use gentoo would be a pretty big first step, since gentoo is a linux distro based around the concept of being built from scratch by every single individual user. Customizing and compiling the kernel is just another part of the installation process.
Once you have a handle on that, then maybe you'll know if LFS is something for you or if you would just be better off sticking with Arch or Ubuntu.
You left one target group out however, that is people who want to make and support their own linux distribution. If these didn't exist we would never have had Ubuntu or Fedora or Suse or any of those nice things you mentioned, we would only have LFS.
I personally would like to do it, but I would want to create an arch-like distro, and creating and maintaining a package repository of pre-compiled binaries is just too massive of an undertaking for me to actually go ahead and try. (Although I've been thinking about going ahead and trying to figure out a solution to that problem too, and surprisingly enough I am not coming up empty.)
The real problem is taht all major linux distributions have sizable developer teams working on them and volunteers doing things like maintaining package repositories, a nobody creating a linux distro from scratch doesn't have that, unless he's rich and can afford to buy such a team and put them on a payroll.
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