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So, I found the other day this Linux project, called Linux From Scratch.

For those who don't know what this is about, it's basically about building an entire Linux installation completely and entirely from the pure source code, with no other programs installed previously. It's a challenge only for Linux experts, but it seems interesting. After all, by experience, Linux is the best way to squeeze all the performance you can get from a computer, such as that old-a** 128 MB machine we're going to give to our grandpas which ran slow like hell with Windows XP but ran fine under Debian ^^

Anyone has tried this?

Which means he has LFS? confused

'Cause, you know, I have stood next to an Ubuntu installation and I can certify this s**t installs in 10 minutes plus maybe another 10 minutes to configure the GRUB (the startup screen) and other stuff.

Though the fact that he has Mac OS makes it different... Mac OS is not designed to run on an IBM PC architecture even though it's Intel x86-compatible, which means you have to do some weirdo hackwork in order to get it to work on a non-Mac machine.