Anyone here every try Linux From Scratch? Post:

Anyone here every try Linux From Scratch? Post:
>Your experience with it
>Your opinion of it
>Screenshots, if you have any
>Are you a wizard? Or just autistic?

tried it a few times, and have never gotten past compiling the toolchain. i get errors out the arse that dont seem to have any solution than scrap the whole thing and do it again

O-oh. Thanks for sharing, user.

I made it pretty far into building one, got to chroot into it and started compiling packages but then work got buys so i put it aside. was doing it all in a VM and still have the files. i guess I could start again. Ill be interested if there is anyone here who has done anything fun with it, might motivate me.

Yep same, I'd like to see some screenshots if anyone got a functional desktop or something. I know it's pretty pointless, but it's a fun hobby thing I'd probably enjoy doing if I ever get around to it.

It was a few years ago that I tried it and I was still very new to linux then, i was still able to make it pretty far along and resolve any errors I came across. its well written and as long as you do everything that it says and dont skip things, you should be able to make it pretty far. i would like to try it again but it takes a good amount of dedicated time and I just dont have it right now.

Did you get to building a graphical environment, or just the base system?

>graphical environment
thats whats in BLFS; beyond lfs. its the second stage, and its pretty much necessary if you want anything beyond terminal

So basically a slightly worse version of Gentoo.

no just the base system

its pretty easy

I will comment that the current guide has you using some old fucking packages right now, and I don't know how often they update the documentation.

>and I don't know how often they update the documentation.
not that often. v6 is a big overhaul tho; it has a separate guide for building without systemd if you are so inclined.

Fuck off, retard.

When I was like 14(20 now, where the fuck did time go), I built an LFS system with a graphical environment. Ran into a few hiccups, but I actually did it on bare metal and it turned out pretty decently. I never made use of it as anything more than just a hobby though

>slightly
Are you kidding me? Memes aside, gentoo is a sanely designed and structured distro, that be tinkered with without taking too many risks, etc. LFS is a buggy shit that will never be usable as a daily use installation.

>LFS is a buggy shit that will never be usable as a daily use installation
This is how you spot a retard who doesn't know what he's talking about. I'll let you know that LFS is a book, not a distro. You should probably look up what stuff means before you make an ass out of yourself.

aye, around 9 years ago - it was good fun.

LFS is mainly for interested people to learn the nuts, and bolts of a linux based operating sytem.
Isn't it?

just this weekend i finished reading the LFS book, any advice when i finally start building the system except doing it in a VM?

That's where I started out when I decided to switch to Linux for good. Took a couple of months of fiddling after classes to make it useable. Compiled myself IceWM, almost made KDE work but couldn't be bothered to figure out how to setup mime types correctly. Then I tried Arch, ended up hating it, switched to Gentoo and stayed there.