Le principe est donc d'installer votre système en compilant un par un tous les packages, et en ayant ainsi un contrôle total sur toute l'installation. LFS se présente sous forme d'un livre décrivant entièrement les étapes à suivre pour installer une distrib avec tous les packages de base d'un système GNU/Linux, mais rien ne vous empêche, bien sur, de vous écarter des chemin tracés, si vous préférez par exemple LILO à GRUB, ou voulez tout compiler en -Os (KK

Ci-dessous les annonces de sortie de LFS et BLFS 5.0, qui suivent à présent le processus "pure LFS", afin d'avoir un système complètement indépendant de la distribution de départ. :
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS-5.0. This major milestone features a new method with strong emphasis on building a correct compilation environment and base libraries independent from the host system. Release 5.0 features the Linux kernel version 2.4.22, the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.3.2, the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc) 3.3.1 and a bootloader change from LILO to GRUB, amongst other package upgrades. The book's explanatory texts have also been enhanced, providing an even richer learning experience while you build your own customised, hand-crafted Linux installation.
You can read the book online, or you can download the book to read locally.
This marks yet another great leap for Linux From Scratch, and we hope that it will bring the benefits to more users, sysadmins, and developers than ever before.
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of BLFS-5.0. This features our first concurrent release with LFS-5.0. Release 5.0 features XFree86-4.3.0.1, KDE 3.1.4, GNOME 2.2.2, Apache 2.0.47 and OpenOffice 1.1.0 plus a wide variety of current libraries and support programs. The book's layout has also been improved from the previous release. All to provide you with the best applications to install on top of your LFS 5.0 system to create customized web servers, desktops and/or multimedia workstations.Lien : http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
I want to thank all the editors for their hard work on this release. Also special thanks go to all the people who gave feedback on the CVS version. I am very pleased with it and hope you are also.
For the list of changes I refer to the changelog.
Feedback can be sent to the blfs-dev mailinglist. CVS will be restored once we've finished our virtual champagne.