As a system administrator, what better way to know the platform you work with than to put it together into a working, cohesive whole? When you build Linux from scratch, you come to fully and ...

The Linux From Scratch Project has been around for quite a while. So most readers are already aware that this project teaches people about how Linux works and how it can help you build a customized ...

Born in December 1999 as a Linux installation and book written by Gerard Beekmans, Linux From Scratch, also known as LFS, reached version 12.4 yesterday. Mostly maintained by Bruce Dubbs, the book ...

In the midst of all the excitement surrounding the release of Fedora Core 2 this week, some of the smaller projects that announced new versions at about the same time might have escaped attention. One ...

DIY: Do It Yourself. That's how Linux got started. A group of volunteers, inspired and led by Linus Torvalds, created the greatest DIY operating system the world has ever seen. You, too, can create ...

I'm interested in installing some sort of package management tool on a Linux from scratch install. Either RPM, YUM, or Apt. I realize I could easily install a distro that includes package management, ...