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NewsForge: My Workstation OS: Linux From Scratch

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“Like nearly every other person who has contributed to this
series, I have tinkered around with my share of Linux
distributions. I happened on Linux From Scratch (LFS) about an year
and a half ago. With LFS, my choices run deep into the system–into
matters such as which shell to run, what feature of glibc to use,
and how to tailor boot scripts. LFS 6.0, which is what I have built
my system around, comes with gcc 3.4.1 (which is used to build
everything else), a fairly recent CVS build of glibc 2.3.4 (which
the LFS team provides for download), kernel 2.6.8.1, and udev.

“LFS is a source-based distribution, and that detail alone
nearly put me off it the first time around…”

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