[$] Bootstrappable builds: how and why

LWN is reporting on a talk from FOSSY, held this year in Vancouver. Timothy Sample presented on bootstrappable builds—a technique where you start with a tiny program and build progressively until a complete Linux user space is constructed. The key advantage: code with a completely understood origin, something most current Linux systems lack.

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