Star Building Your Own (Minimal) Operating System
Linked by Steve Mulder on Fri 31st Jan 2003 07:35 UTC
Linux Why, you might ask, would anyone want to build their own operating system? It's really about being in control and knowing what's going on.In the next few paragraphs I'll explain what motivated me to take on this project, the recipe I used, and what I like about it.
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Speed
by Steve on Fri 31st Jan 2003 11:51 UTC

I've been using LFS for just over a year now; the main benefit for me, is the speed compared to a binary distribution (RedHat, SuSE, FreeBSD, etc).

Compiling glibc and everything else customised for your own machine is a real boon.