Post Syndicated from daroc original https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/

A
bootstrappable build is one that builds existing
software from scratch — for example, building GCC without relying on an existing
copy of GCC. In 2023, the Guix project
announced that the project had reduced the size
of the binary bootstrap seed needed to build its operating system to just 357-bytes —
not counting the Linux kernel required to run the build process. Now, the
live-bootstrap project
has gone a step further and removed the need for an existing kernel at all.