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30-Aug-2024

The Fiwix kernel as a crucial part in the bootstrapping Linux process

Since October 2022 the Fiwix kernel has been accepting patches that were necessary to be able to be compiled with TCC, a really small C compiler. This was a necessary step into the whole bootstrapping process of a complete Linux distribution.

The following is a set of links that helps to understand what is the boostrapping process and how Fiwix is involved on it:

• Understanding the basics with Bootstrappable builds.
• This is the main project: https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap. Take a look into the parts.rst file.
• Read this article in LWN.net about bootstrapping Linux.
• Learn why this guy is writing a Rust compiler in C language.