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Respect. Big respect. Those people are hardcore from scratch hackers, and their wiki is amazing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/

It's just that <Buildroot> is more hardcore ;-)

But can you build the ISO full from source: <Linux distribution buildable from source>


Arch Linux

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The basis for <Linux Kernel Module Cheat>.

Buildroot is <good>.


Buildroot

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This thing is sexy.


NixOS

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As of 2020, no one knows how to build the major desktop distros fully from source into the ISO, and especially so in a reproducible build way. Everything is done in build servers somewhere with complicated layers of prebuilds. It's crap.

See also: https://cirosantilli.com/linux-kernel-module-cheat/#linux-distro-choice

Yes:
* <Buildroot>
* <NixOS>

No:
* <Ubuntu>: https://askubuntu.com/questions/82302/how-to-compile-ubuntu-from-source-code source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/08/laws-sausages/[sausage factory]


Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

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