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[$] Pulling Linux up by its bootstraps
Wednesday July 31, 2024. 03:18 PM , from LWN.net
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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.
https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/
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