Linux From Scratch, a combination software project and book, now in a newly released 8.0 revision, provides a step-by-step guide to building an entire functional Linux system from the ground up.

Technically it’s not even a distribution, but a guide, a series of steps that you will follow to create your own running Linux installation from, as the name suggests, scratch.

Think you can make a better fast-booting, Chrome-focused OS than Google? Want to craft a custom Linux system that boots from a USB stick? SUSE Studio gives you 15 GB to do exactly that, and you do ...

Even if you don’t own a floppy drive, it’s well worth following his guide and booting the image up in QEMU just to say you’ve officially built a Linux system from scratch.

Void Linux offers an unusual alternative to many of the traditional Linux distros affiliated with a larger Linux family such as Debian or Ubuntu or Arch. Void Linux is an independently developed, ...

6. Building Linux Software from Scratch If you prefer a more hands-on approach or need specific software that isn’t available through other means, you can build it from scratch: ...

There are flavors of Linux built for students, for musicians and creative professionals, for, um, anime fans? You can even roll your own distribution from scratch and literally make it your own.