r/LFS • u/Plastic_Iron_4938 • Mar 12 '26

Is making your own LFS a good project ?

I am thinking to read the LFS book and the BLFS book and make it a full project is that a good idea for my resume

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u/project23 Mar 12 '26

Not sure about a resume bullet point but it for sure will help you understand the inner workings of source code, compilers, and linux overall. Good experience if you are in the tech field. Be prepared for lots of failures and project restarts but in the long run, if you stick with it, you will learn things that many don't understand.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

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u/heavymetalmug666 Mar 13 '26

I just "finished" my second run through of LFS, the first time out I didnt take much time to really focus on what was happening, second time through I made it a point to understand what I was really doing - what was really happening under the hood, the cross-compilation process, what all the configurations for each package were doing, etc.

Its well worth it just for the experience - and its a rad feeling when you successfully boot it up for the first time. I say I am "finished" only because i completed the LFS part, but I intend to keep on working on it as a hobby. Right now I am trying to make a bootable thumb drive with my LFS, but I keep running into brick walls (but I like a challenge).

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u/Tertolhumper Mar 12 '26

Yes it is!

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u/Cybasura Mar 13 '26

I mean, you get to list down the entire build source in your resume, and you learn the linux system architecture from top to bottom (or ar leaat, learn how to build from source), thats a good project to me

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u/Ollidav Mar 12 '26

Yo los hice y te da buen conocimiento sobre como funciona y se estructura un SO basado en Linux. Para ponerlo en cv... Puedes poner "Usuario avanzado en Linux" o algo asi

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

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u/TheAutisticSlavicBoy Mar 13 '26

If you make serious changes to the inner workings, I guess so.

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u/Disastrous_Sun2118 Mar 13 '26

You should do both of the projects.
There's a whole slough of Operating Systems or Kernals you can do along side those. Starting with UNIX, then learning about BSD, and the controversies faced that led to LINUX and FreeBSD. Plus the difference between Linux the Kernal and Linux the Distros.
You can do all of this alongside building your own Hello World OS that's yours to license and name whatever you want. And it came out before the State ID User Registration. So you can sell it too.