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8<sect1 id="pre-foreword">
9 <?dbhtml filename="foreword.html"?>
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11 <title>Foreword</title>
12
13 <para>The Linux From Scratch Project has seen many changes in the
14 few years of its existence. I personally became involved with the
15 project in 1999, around the time of the 2.x releases. At that time,
16 the build process was to create static binaries with the host system,
17 then chroot and build the final binaries on top of the static ones.</para>
18
19 <para>Later came the use of the /static directory to hold the initial
20 static builds, keeping them separated from the final system, then
21 the PureLFS process developed by Ryan Oliver and Greg Schafer,
22 introducing a new toolchain build process that divorces even our initial
23 builds from the host. Finally, LFS 6 bought Linux Kernel 2.6, the
24 udev dynamic device structure, sanitized kernel headers, and other
25 improvements to the Linux From Scratch system.</para>
26
27 <para>The one "flaw" in LFS is that it has always been based on an x86
28 class processor. With the advent of the Athlon 64 and Intel EM64T
29 processors, the x86-only LFS is no longer ideal. Throughout this time,
30 Ryan Oliver developed and documented a process by which you could
31 build Linux for any system and from any system, by use of
32 cross-compilation techniques. Thus, the Cross LFS project was born.</para>
33
34 <para>CLFS follows the same guiding principles the LFS project has
35 always followed, e.g., knowing your system inside and out by virtue
36 of having built the system yourself. Additionally, during a CLFS
37 build, you will learn advanced techniques such as cross-build toolchains,
38 multilib support (32 &amp; 64-bit libraries side-by-side), alternative
39 architectures such as Sparc, MIPS, and Alpha, and much more.</para>
40
41 <para>We hope you enjoy building your own CLFS system, and the benefits
42 that come from a system tailored to your needs.</para>
43
44<literallayout>--
45Jeremy Utley, CLFS 1.x Release Manager (Page Author)
46Jim Gifford, CLFS Project Co-leader
47Ryan Oliver, CLFS Project Co-leader
48Joe Ciccone, Justin Knierim, Chris Staub, Matt Darcy, Ken Moffat,
49Manuel Canales Esparcia, and Nathan Coulson - CLFS Developers</literallayout>
50
51</sect1>
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