For those of you who don’t know, Linux From Scratch is a project that teaches you how to compile your own custom distro, with everything compiled from source code.
What was your experience like? Was it easier or harder than you expected? Do you run it as a daily driver or did you just do it for fun?
kindof, but it was 1993 and I didn’t actually have to compile the kernel but pretty much everything else!
the hardest part was teaching yourself to write slip/ppp dialup scripts with your only resource being a stack of usenet printouts, if you couldn’t get it working you had to reinstall dos and telemate to go back to usenet for more help (only had the one computer!)
telemate was incredible, incidentally, it had an internal editor and file browser so could do multitasking that dos couldn’t, i had it in my autoexec.bat and pretty much used it as my OS because modeming was life.
Slackware blew all that away x 1000 though.
Just open usenet on your phone ffs /s
That was the time before kernel modules, so compiling your own kernel was definitelly required for anything but the most basic setup (no graphics, no audio).