On 03/27/16 13:12, David L. Craig wrote:
Contact Rick Troth<[email protected]> about his source-based Linux distro
for several platforms including x86 and Z. It is a build from scratch
exercise and that will teach you the rock-bottom basics. ...
Thanks again for the shout out, David!
NORD is just a source build of the core packages used in most Linux
systems: shell, awk, sed, grep, make, compiler, assembler, runtime
library, various scripting languages. Totally non-graphical. (But I run
X windows on it by stealing graphical packages from other distros.
Works.) The rationale for the project was to have a close-to-source
environment with minimal dependencies.
Related to all this is a battle against bloat.
By default, NORD starts the network and SSHD and nothing else.
I use it as a primary HTTP and DNS server, but security comes first.
(The story gets long from here.)
If you have access to z/VM, you can probably get NORD running in half an
hour. One EXEC and one Pipelines gem will get you going. You would need
to know your way around "shell stuff", but otherwise it's really really
simple.
For the PC port, I also snagged a bootable HD image a few months ago.
Have been meaning to create a bootable ISO or USB, but as it's mostly a
hobby thing, that little detail has fallen down in the backlog.
(Building it is easy, even trivial. Packaging it is hard.)
However, you might find the
definitive Linux From Scratch (LFS) distro better as it is
primarily designed to teach people how to build a Linux system
from the source (it's been a long time since you could do that
with IBM's flagship OS).
True.
If you're after an education, LFS will do you better.
-- R; <><
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