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by felixrabe 4276 days ago
I wonder how many dependencies would actually be needed for a self-hosting (i.e. able to re-compile itself) Linux-plus-shell system.

Some pointers: http://www.landley.net/ols/ols2007/tutorial.txt, found via https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linuxfromscratch...
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felixrabe 4276 days ago
Clarification: By "a self-hosting...system" I meant "the most minimal self-hosting system".

Better pointers: http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html via more googling: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=minimal%20self%2...

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fit2rule 4276 days ago
It used to be, in the good ol' days, "about 4 floppies of kernel and drivers", and "12 floppies of baseutils" with your added "5 floppies for emacs" and "1 floppy for vim" .. but those days are long over.

Nowadays, the most useful 'self-building' OS/bin stack is debian with build-essentials.

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justincormack 4276 days ago
Well not Linux, but all the BSDs are self hosting. Recommend NetBSD as you can cross build it from Linux it doesn't take too long.
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