[$] Pulling Linux up by its bootstraps


A <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/841797/" rel="nofollow">
bootstrappable build</a> 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
https://lwn.net/Articles/930650/
 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
https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap
 project
has gone a step further and removed the need for an existing kernel at all.


https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/