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bigfishrunning 8 hours ago

Why? If you really care that little about the properties of the Linux distribution, just run one of the many that already exist.

Linux From Scratch was never really about running the system anyway -- Most people go through it as a learning exercise and then run a maintained distribution anyway; I would think it's a tiny minority that maintains an LFS system for a long time.

shevy-java 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> Linux From Scratch was never really about running the system anyway

It definitely is. See the bootscripts:

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapte...

Admittedly the main problems I had was with configuring the linux kernel. I have no good solution to make this simpler. That config file is sooooooooooo huge ... no clue how to handle this. There is no way I have enough time to sift through all the options. Or compare what changed from kernel to kernel version. Anyone has an idea how to handle this on your own?

webdevver 5 hours ago | parent [-]

starting from a 'known good' config file (olddefconfig, allnoconfig) and then carefully iteratively switching options around is the only methodology ive had any success with.

I've had some good experiences with using Gemini to help me explore Kernel config options (e.g. "whats the minimum set of config options i need to have enabled to faciliate feature X?")

LLMs in general are very knowledgeable about the Linux kernel (unsurprisingly!) which is why I made my original comment. You can ask them about relevant places in the kernel source tree to look at for a given mechanism, and they'll point you to the file and function without having to 'look'.