Subj : [$] Pulling Linux up by its bootstraps
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From : LWN.net
Date : Wed Jul 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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