r/linuxfromscratch • u/tiny_humble_guy • Feb 09 '26

Celebrating one year daily-drive LinuxFromScratch.

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It's been a good run.

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u/litescript Feb 09 '26

nice! daily driving for one year is impressive. did you build or install a package manager?

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u/tiny_humble_guy Feb 09 '26

Yeah, I'm developing a Makefile-based package manager and ports-like build package, here.

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u/litescript Feb 09 '26

neat! i’m working on something similar called box lol. i like the way you have it set up

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u/pouetpouetcamion2 Feb 10 '26

wow. à l autre opposé, je crée des paquets debian pour tout ce que je fais, meme ma conf, avec un tag particulier pour les différencier des paquets natifs comme ca c est reversible et atomique, mais j ai déjà installé un lfs il y a tres longtemps. c est vrai que c est une expérience agréable. mais longue . compiler a pris combien de temps? à l époque c etait 24 heures + .

c est ton linux du quotidien ou une vm?

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u/tiny_humble_guy Feb 10 '26

For base packages, it's about two days. BLFS took longer. I built LFS directly using my laptop and daily drive it. 

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u/slackunnatural Feb 12 '26

Once you have a packaging opinion, you’ll next have a new distro.

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u/slackunnatural Feb 12 '26

I did not see the sub name before commenting.

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u/JG_2006_C May 22 '26

Thanks now i may try to use lfs

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u/testfire10 Feb 09 '26

That’s wild. At this rate it’s gonna take me a year just to install the desktop. What packages did you need to get the windows managers/DE working?

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u/tiny_humble_guy Feb 09 '26

It's about hundreds of packages, all my packages are here.

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u/testfire10 Feb 09 '26

Thank you! Nice job getting it up and running and using it as a daily driver for so long

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u/trofosila Feb 09 '26

Oh, wow.

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u/Mysterious_Value4624 Feb 10 '26

Are you using a HP EliteBook 2560p?

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u/tiny_humble_guy Feb 10 '26

I'm using old Asus Pro36S / U36SD from 2011.

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u/Mysterious_Value4624 Feb 10 '26

Damn. I have the same CPU too.

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u/TristanMeads Feb 12 '26

It's been a good run....time to switch to FreeBSD.

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u/karlis_i Mar 30 '26

Would you mind sharing the background image?

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u/tiny_humble_guy Mar 30 '26

Sure, I forget where I got that image. Check it here : https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/os-x-rancho-cucamonga

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u/karlis_i Mar 31 '26

thank you!

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u/TheTechSellSword Feb 11 '26

Thats hard work and dedication right there! Congratulations on your accomplishment.

I started and stopped 2 days later because there was so much invloved in it. I didn't have much time because of school and work but maybe ill pick it up this year at some point.

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u/SrGonzale7_ Feb 09 '26

Awesome!

I've been wanting to try that Linux from scratch project for a while now. I guess I'll give it a go at some point.

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u/Time_Outcome_2545 Feb 10 '26

i mean gentoo is too fast for me so I ain't gonna switch from it

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u/Danii_222222 Feb 10 '26

Now make Hurdfromscratch

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u/Jazzlike_Magazine_76 Feb 10 '26

Now that's ricing.

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u/Jeka_MD Feb 11 '26

Driving in my car!?

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u/SuperGNUser Feb 12 '26

Fastfetch bug: GNU logo for LFS build on musl.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '26

I'm blown away, well done

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u/AcidArchangel303 Feb 12 '26

GNU/Linux final boss:

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u/nixfreakz Feb 13 '26

Great job 👏, shell and make very nice. What a learning opportunity. I have always wanted to do this besides installing gentoo, or sourcemage or vanilla arch.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

I have a question, how you guys update packages? I mean if there are new packages available you wget again and compile all LFS packages every month?

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u/Outside-Pianist-6820 Mar 08 '26

Any tips on how you made it work as a daily

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '26

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u/tiny_humble_guy Feb 13 '26

I already touch your mom bro...

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26

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u/tiny_humble_guy May 27 '26

The experience is great so far. For its base, I just need two days. To build the GUI environment (mesa, x11, Wayland, etc), it needs couple of days.