Apollia wrote:
> I've also increasingly been considering trying to build my own Linux from
> scratch, probably using this website as a guide:
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

There are more automated ways to do this:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/

You may be interested to know that Gobo Linux is based on ALFS.

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Joel Roth