Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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What does it take to build a Linux distribution from scratch? The process is fairly well documented in the Linux from Scratch book, but that doesn't really help explain a lot of aspects beyond getting a core system. It's entirely possible to get KDE or GNOME built, but if you want to get an actual web browser environment, well, the process is documented in the BLFS book, but I strongly suspect this is going to be a lot harder than I expect.

To build Linux from Scratch, we need to make a core bootstrap which can successfully get us off the ground, build the core root environment, then build X, a desktop environment, and then all the dependencies to make Firefox compatible, with the intent of being able to watch my own videos on the Linux distro I built from scratch.

We'll likely be using KVM, and documenting each part step by step, but I expect this to be a multistep process from start to finish.