INL (Is Not Linux): Challenges of Building a New FOSS Operating System

Lucio Agostinho Rocha

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INL (Is Not Linux): Challenges of Building a New FOSS Operating System

Lucio Agostinho Rocha

Published in International Journal on Data Science and Technology (Volume 3, Issue 1)

Received: 12 April 2017 Accepted: 21 April 2017 Published: 22 May 2017

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Abstract

This article describes the main considerations to automate the building process to create new operating systems based on Linux From Scratch and Beyond Linux From Scratch projects. It is necessary to provide automation of this building to simplify, fix a lot of configuration bugs, and reduce the inherent effort to create a functional operating system. Our purpose is offering a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) with concise descriptions to guide the building of these operating systems. One of the major challenges is the necessary effort to deal with packagesand its dependencies. As a consequence, it was developed an optimized installer that follows rigorously the official LFS documentation to generate bootable virtual machines.

Published in	International Journal on Data Science and Technology (Volume 3, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijdst.20170301.12
Page(s)	8-15
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2017. Published by Science Publishing Group

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FOSS, Operating System, Linux

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Department of Software Engineering, Federal University of Technology (UTFPR), Dois Vizinhos, Brazil

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