distros installing by building from sources
by oui from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5N4K3)
actually, I know 3 actives (perhaps 4 if NuTyx continues like in the past to offer the way don't to install some binaries but to build the entire distro.
- lfs and blfs
- gentoo
- lunar
which one can let me expect
a/ the most faster job
b/ the most easy and secure job
c/ an equilibrate best choice of a + b ?
(I did build in the past NuTyx, based on lfs, not completely automatic with a script but following instructions and little number of scripts, and it was really fast and simple and did work, beginning with the own kernel version etc. with the restriction that the NuTyx depots were really extremely "liquide / fluid" (the job did often break because new packages not really adapted for the way and did cause incompatibilities! As such a job is long for an newbie (he must plan to restart an certain number of times probably before success), the depository is better stable and quiet...)
and also Sorcerer, a very old experience for me, and I can't remember any more the details now but it did go.
And also SliTaz, a really tiny Linux, that is an advantage at this job, but it was release 1.0 about 15..20 y ago! It seems that the way can't be offered any more from that distro actually as the distro is seeing itself more as a ready to use little distro based on live CD / Iso's with very flexible adaptations and ways for more excepted perhaps to build from scratch).
it is possible that obarun, also a little Swiss distro like SliTaz (or NuTyx) offers the way out sources from Arch linux.
and any years ago an exact description how to reproduce the most tiny core configuration from LSF but using sources from Slackware did be published but it is probably only possible for really experimented users from LSF as the description is absolutely up to date!
last idea would be a build of android-86. but after that, you will have no linux distribution but a clone of android!
- lfs and blfs
- gentoo
- lunar
which one can let me expect
a/ the most faster job
b/ the most easy and secure job
c/ an equilibrate best choice of a + b ?
(I did build in the past NuTyx, based on lfs, not completely automatic with a script but following instructions and little number of scripts, and it was really fast and simple and did work, beginning with the own kernel version etc. with the restriction that the NuTyx depots were really extremely "liquide / fluid" (the job did often break because new packages not really adapted for the way and did cause incompatibilities! As such a job is long for an newbie (he must plan to restart an certain number of times probably before success), the depository is better stable and quiet...)
and also Sorcerer, a very old experience for me, and I can't remember any more the details now but it did go.
And also SliTaz, a really tiny Linux, that is an advantage at this job, but it was release 1.0 about 15..20 y ago! It seems that the way can't be offered any more from that distro actually as the distro is seeing itself more as a ready to use little distro based on live CD / Iso's with very flexible adaptations and ways for more excepted perhaps to build from scratch).
it is possible that obarun, also a little Swiss distro like SliTaz (or NuTyx) offers the way out sources from Arch linux.
and any years ago an exact description how to reproduce the most tiny core configuration from LSF but using sources from Slackware did be published but it is probably only possible for really experimented users from LSF as the description is absolutely up to date!
last idea would be a build of android-86. but after that, you will have no linux distribution but a clone of android!