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Learn about cross-compiling, and learn the ins and outs of everyone's favorite unix-like

GNU/Linux can be a little overwhelming, because it's so big and powerful. While much less true today with Ubuntu, Mint, and other desktop Linux distributions, there is an old fashioned idea from the days when GNU/Linux was young that the easiest way to learn how to use it was to build it. Even today, I believe there is some truth to this attitude. So join me as you create a working, cross-compiled operating system and learn how it works along the way. It's probably easier than you think!

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Finalizing the Core OS [June 10, 2012, 11:35 p.m.]

Once I've gone through building all the programs in the book

http://greenback.gremlin.net/CLFS-x86.pdf

I'll return to this task and fill it in with some information on the following topics:

Making your system bootable
Setting up your Sys V init system
The File Heirarchy Standard
Getting you online through an ethernet adapter and wifi card
Getting you some "rescue" tools so you can continue building your system, like the lynx web browser
And any other "gotchas" that come with powering on and using your brand new linux OS you just made

Cross Linux From Scratch

Finalizing the Core OS [June 10, 2012, 11:35 p.m.]