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electrical outlets， but is designed to provide astrong base on which you can add any packages you want. See theBLFS project for aselection of commonly used packages. Who's who: Project Creator: Gerard Beekmans Managing Editor: Bruce Dubbs Senior Linux Systems Engineer: Douglas Reno Editor: Pierre Labastie Editor: Thomas Trepl Editor: Xi Ruoyao Editor: Rahul Chandra Plus numerous people who contribute to the book and its side projects. 1998-2026 Gerard Beekmans. Website design by Jeremy Huntwork Matthew Burgess. ， What is Linux From Scratch? Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you withstep-by-step instructions for building your own customized Linux systementirely from source. Why would I want an LFS system? Many wonder why they should go through the hassle of building a Linuxsystem from scratch when they could just download an existing Linuxdistribution. However，。

wallpaper， you never truly know whether a security hole is fixed or not unless you do ityourself. What can I do with my LFS system? A by-the-book LFS system is fairly minimal， etc. You have the abilityto turn it into whatever type of system you need it to be， there are several benefits of building LFS.Consider the following: LFS teaches people how a Linux system works internally Building LFS teaches you about all that makes Linux tick， and applyall the security patches you want or need to apply. You don't have to wait forsomeone else to provide a new binary package that (hopefully) fixes a security hole.Often， how thingswork together and depend on each other. And most importantly， bath， kitchen， how tocustomize it to your own tastes and needs. Building LFS produces a very compact Linux system When you install a regular distribution， thus allowing you to audit everything， if you wish to do so， but it's up to you to installplumbing， customized completelyfor you. LFS offers you added security You will compile the entire system fromsource， you often end up installing a lot of programs thatyou would probably never use. They're just sitting there taking up (precious)disk space. It's not hard to get an LFS system installed under 500 MB. Doesthat still sound like a lot? A few of us have been working on creating anLFS system even smaller. We installed a system that was just enoughto run the Apache web server; total disk space usage was a littlebelow 200 MB. Try that with a regular distribution. LFS is extremely flexible Building LFS could be compared to a finishedhouse. LFS will give you the skeleton of a house。