Linux From Scratch, a project that teaches building a Linux system from source code, is not a conventional distribution. Beginners start with a blank slate and compile every necessary component.

Linux From Scratch, a combination software project and book, now in a newly released 8.0 revision, provides a step-by-step guide to building an entire functional Linux system from the ground up.

Linux From Scratch (or LFS for short) is the furthest from a traditional Linux distribution that you can imagine. Unlike other Linux distros, LFS doesn’t come with precompiled binaries or ready ...

Void Linux offers an unusual alternative to many of the traditional Linux distros affiliated with a larger Linux family such as Debian or Ubuntu or Arch. Void Linux is an independently developed, ...

quote:The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS-5.0. This major milestone features a new method with strong emphasis on building a correct compilation environment ...

Even if you don't know all that much about Linux, it's pretty easy to build a system you can boot from a USB stick or live CD/DVD, run inside a virtual machine program, or actually install it—or ...

Router hardware. As we disclosed last time, this decision was pretty simple: a dual-gigabit-NIC mini-PC from Alibaba and an inexpensive SSD from Newegg.(Update, 4/18: Though that vendor seems to ...

Void Linux was developed by a relatively small group of volunteers who built the system and its package manager from scratch. Command line issues aside, this distro comes with a nice range of ...