Linux From Scratch

HLFS is currently in an alpha state. Work continues on it constantly. It is recommended that only experienced testers read the current development book.

With the release of BLFS-6.0, the ALFS Team is proud to announce the first test release of the ALFS profile to accompany it. This profile is still considered very much beta, as it has not the widespread testing that it's LFS counterparts have had. It ... [More] can be downloaded from the usual locations (/alfs/downloads/profiles/blfs/test/profile-BLFS-6.0-test1.tar.bz2). [Less]

The ALFS Team is proud to announce the release of the BLFS-6.0 ALFS profile. It can be downloaded from the usual location.

There is a new implementation of ALFS available, called jhalfs. The main purpose of jhalfs is to provide a pure reference build of LFS by extracting the commands to run directly from the LFS book. This has the added benefit of reducing maintenance as there are no profiles needed.

The BLFS Development team is pleased to announce the release of the 6.3-rc3 version of BLFS. This is a release candidate of the 6.3 version, due to be released on August 24th. You can view the 6.3-rc3 version on ... [More] your local mirror. For additional information about the release, along with other download and format options, see the 6.3 Release Notes. [Less]

After five years, The BLFS Team is happy to present version 7.4 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 750 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 7.4 book. You can view the 7.4 version on your local mirror.

The BLFS Team is happy to present version 7.5 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 750 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 7.5 book. The book has over 700 significant ... [More] updates from the previous version as well as numerous text and formatting changes. You can view the 7.5 version on your local mirror. [Less]

The jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.3.1

The BLFS Development team is pleased to announce the release of the 6.3-rc3 version of BLFS. This is a release candidate of the 6.3 version, due to be released on August 24th. You can view the 6.3-rc3 version on ... [More] <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/./view/6.3-rc3">your local mirror</a>. For additional information about the release, along with other download and format options, see the <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/./6.3-release_notes.html">6.3 Release Notes</a>. [Less]

The jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.3.