• [$] Pulling Linux up by its bootstraps

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 14:30:06
    [$] Pulling Linux up by its bootstraps

    Date:
    Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:18:13 +0000

    Description:
    A bootstrappable build is one that builds existing
    software from scratch for example, building GCC without relying on an existing
    copy of GCC. In 2023, the Guix project announced that the project had reduced the size
    of the binary bootstrap seed needed to build its operating system to just 357-bytes
    not counting the Linux kernel required to run the build process. Now, the live-bootstrap project
    has gone a step further and removed the need for an existing kernel at all.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/


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