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awesome
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S6, BusyBox, Binary, Suckless
Try this list https://github.com/firasuke/awesome
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A ultra minimalist distro just for fun
Stuff like Business Card Linux might be worth a look. There's some useful links here
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Best (and "easy") distro to build your own distro?
Other projects that could be worth a look are Kiss, Crux, Exherbo & Void...there's a few other pointers in this list.
- GNU free Linux, must not include any GNU stuff
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Can I go deeper or did I hit rock bottom?
Gentoo's quite a complex beast, you could look at simpler stuff with code a single human has a chance of understanding. mkroot, Kiss, Glaucus, Sta.li, few more here
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Arch, Gentoo or LFS
If you are interested in the nuts an bolts of operating systems there's a nice list of interesting projects here.
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is there repositories/lists that contains simple, 'suckless' projects?
https://github.com/firasuke/awesome (last updated yesterday)
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just for curiosity: is it possible to combin Linux and FreeBSD into a single OS? Or does this exist already?
If you search on this link there are a few attempts to use the linux kernel with a bsd userland.
- Distro for a masochist
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Would creating my own Linux Distro from scratch be a good way to learn how linux works for a complete beginner?
Glaucus is another one man project, his Github site has a lot of good info and links to other awesome projects
LFSBootCD
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How would i make a full distro based directly off the kernel
I mention this because it will make your research much easier...you are not looking to make a distro, you are looking to make a base system from an boot image. LFS only covers the base system part, for making boot images like isos you can look at something like this
What are some alternatives?
glaucus - A simple and lightweight Linux® distribution based on musl libc and toybox
awesome-robotics-projects - A list of open-source, affordable, less-known, or visionary robotics projects.
community - Officially unofficial KISS community repository, mirror of https://codeberg.org/kiss-community/community
bedrocklinux-userland - This tracks development for the things such as scripts and (defaults for) config files for Bedrock Linux
mkroot - Simple Linux build, bootable under qemu for multiple architectures.
website - The Haiku website. (Pull requests are accepted; please file issues at https://dev.haiku-os.org).
harm-less - Inspired by suckless and cat-v, this is a simple single document wiki of suckless practices and minimal software.
kiss - KISS Linux - Package Manager
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
suicide-linux - @qntm's Suicide Linux, now available on Docker!
tldrlfs - Too Long; Didn't Read Linux From Scratch