[ryan77627]

I believe so! I did some messing around with the whole "bootstrappable" suite of repos a few months ago and I remember there was a repo [1] that automated the chain of bootstrapping from a project known as hex0 to Linux 4.9 (iirc) inside qemu using fiwix as an intermediary. I didn't have the time to experiment past running it and verifying it works (it did, took my poor laptop around 10 or so hours to run from start to finish), but I presume I would have been able to compile the latest versions of GCC and Linux from the final state of the VM it made. I may still have the image it made lying around somewhere.

[1]: https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I agree that it's sufficient to bootstrap to an older Linux-based system, since the path from there to a full modern system is well-trodden. That's very cool then, thanks for the link:)