Linux From Scratch: Part 1
When I was a kid, I’ve met some guys who introduced me to the Linux world. For that time, the internet was expensive stuff, and micro-modems was a *&^$@ for Linux users. For me, in the puberty age, my parents, without too much money to pay the fee for connection, my entertainment it was discovered, GNU/Linux, I learned how to use it, mount a CD, and convert my music into mp3. Being a boy in his puberty without the internet was tough stuff. The days were passing off, and then after a few months, my parents agree to rent internet, but no ADSL internet, just a modem internet using the telephone line, for me it was amazing!
Fucking internet arrived at my house!
Here began an exciting part of my life/journey to learn GNU/Linux.
After reading a lot about GNU/Linux, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, Red Hat. It appears in a corner something called LFS. That was like a bullet in my head. Do you remember those years when Universities, linuxers, geeks creating their distros to accomplish a philosophy and even a point of view with some specific tools or even with different Look&Feel?. Yes, it was crazy days for distros. Returning to the story. Here something essential to say, I’m from Chile, and we speak Spanish (sort of Spanish), and my English was poor; please, remember I just got my 13/15 years old maybe. Reading the general topics of LFS sounded terrific, documentation to build and learn GNU/Linux. They talk about compilers, cores, libraries, chroot, symbolic link, etc. After reading the official documentation, I thought, “this is an exciting challenge to prove myself and be famous in my geek community and friends.”
Long story short, I never realized that my poor knowledge about English and even translating services became a stone in the shoe for my journey.
But the time passed off, I guess to learn the same thing that LFS could have had taught me at that time, but always I felt the spine in my head because I never finished the documentation to reproduce something useful in LFS.
So, today I had had to start again with LFS, just for fun and learning. And, maybe I will invest, I guess, 3 to 5 days to finish the entire process, so in the meantime, I just finished installing libgcc — this my history about LFS and another one cames.
