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<vasi>Hi! I was asking about a list of bootstrappable distros last month. So I just went and made one: https://github.com/vasi/bootstrappable-distros
<vasi>Please let me know if you have ideas for other distros I should try to bootstrap
<vasi>Some were expected, but a few have been surprising to me! Eg: stagex can actually boot real hardware, and Gnome OS can be completely bootstrapped from source
<vasi>Also I wasn't able to successfully bootstrap a few distros that claim to be bootstrappable, so if anybody has tips please share! Those are: stal/IX, Void, Adelie, and Crux
<blockhead>ACTION is looking now
<blockhead>the links to the distros seem to go nowhere? i tried in links and then seamonkey
<vasi>hmm weird! if i click "NetBSD" it brings me here: https://github.com/vasi/bootstrappable-distros/blob/main/distros/NetBSD.md
<vasi>(running Firefox 140)
<blockhead>weird. loads fine in firefox for me
<blockhead>so firefox only web?
<vasi>chrome is fine too :)
<vasi>hmm yeah i can see it doesn't work in links, i'm not sure why!
<vasi>i guess github just sucks on older browsers
<vasi>anyway, i can certainly mirror to codeberg or something if that's better
<blockhead>one of the upstream sites is on github and it loads fine in links
<blockhead>ACTION will be confused for the rest of the day
<vasi> https://codeberg.org/vasi/bootstrappable-distros
<vasi>seems to work in links and seamonkey
<vasi>thanks for the bug report :)
<blockhead>lol, sorry
<vasi>blockhead: know of any other distros i should try?
<blockhead>i was going to mention LFS & buildroot but then I saw you already have them
<blockhead>there is something I've heard of called "Slackware from Scratch" but I have not looked into it so I know nothing about it
<vasi>heh
<vasi>that's already in the list of distros to attempt!
<blockhead>oh. oops