Linked by Steve Mulder on Fri 31st Jan 2003 07:35 UTC
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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Interesting post on LFS. I've been planning to try LFS for a while (maybe next week), but the good thing about it is that it allows you to configure everything on your own. I believe people have gotten it to work with just a few MB's. Also, its hard to gauge distribution sizes when one includes browsers and added applications. You can probably have a 12-40MB distribution of Mozilla depending on your configure parameters, plus each plugin can be anywhere between 1-20 MB. Incidentally, a minimal distribution of slackware with x windows is roughly 150MB... which isn't too bad for a 1 hour straight installation.