BLFS News
- BLFS 12.2 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2024/09/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 12.2 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes over 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 12.2 book. The book has over 1750 updates from the previous version including many text and formatting changes.
The book includes the Gnome, KDE/Plasma, xfce, and LXQt Desktop environments. It also includes many applications including browsers, email readers, and office applications.
New in this version of BLFS is the upgrade from KDE5 (Frameworks, Gear, Plasma) to KDE6. New packages of interest that were added are FreeRDP, gnome-connections, and KDE's dolphin and konversation. A total of 32 other packages were added to support other packages already in the book. In addition 21 unmaintained packages have been removed. This includes Python2 and GTK2 and packages that have not been updated to use more current versions. Please see the ChangeLog in the book for a full list of changes.
DEPRECATION NOTICE: Future versions of BLFS will remove qt5.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-12.2-systemd.
You can view the 12.2 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 12.2 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 12.1 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2024/03/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 12.1 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes over 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 12.1 book. The book has 1685 updates from the previous version including many text and formatting changes.
The book includes the Gnome, KDE/Plasma, xfce, and LXQt Desktop environments. It also includes many applications including browsers, email readers, and office applications.
New in this version of BLFS are Qt6, sysmon-qt, xdg-desktop-portal, simple-scan, snapshot, wireplumber, power-profiles-daemon, and several supporting packages. This version also added SPIRV and Vulkan packages in support of Vulkan drivers for mesa. Please see the ChangeLog in the book for a full list of changes.
DEPRECATION NOTICE: Future versions of BLFS will remove the unmaintained GTK2 library and Python2.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-12.1-systemd.
You can view the 12.1 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 12.1 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 12.0 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2023/09/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 12.0 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes over 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 12.0 book. The book has 1543 updates from the previous version including many text and formatting changes.
The book includes the Gnome, KDE/Plasma, xfce, and lxde Desktop environments. It also includes many applications including browsers, email readers, and office applications.
New in this version of BLFS is the LXQt Desktop Environment and an alternative method of building Qt with lighter dependency requirements than the full Qt package.
DEPRECATION NOTICE: Future versions of BLFS will remove the unmaintained LXDE Desktop Environment and support for the Reiser file system (reiserfsprogs).
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-12.0-systemd.
You can view the 12.0 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 12.0 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 11.3 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2023/03/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 11.3 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes over 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 11.3 book. The book has 1357 updates from the previous version including many text and formatting changes.
The book includes the Gnome, KDE/Plasma, xfce, and lxde environments. It also includes many applications including browsers, email readers, and office applications.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-11.3-systemd.
You can view the 11.3 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 11.3 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 11.2 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2022/09/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 11.2 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 11.1 book. The book has over 1100 updates from the previous version including many text and formatting changes.
The book includes the Gnome, KDE/Plasma, xfce, and lxde environments. It also includes many applications including browsers, email readers, and office applications.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-11.2-systemd.
You can view the 11.2 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 11.2 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 11.1 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2022/03/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 11.1 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 11.0 book. The book has over 700 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
The book includes the Gnome, KDE/plasma, xfce, and lxde environments. It also includes many applications including browsers, email readers, and office applications.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-11.1-systemd.
You can view the 11.1 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 11.1 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 11.0 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2021/09/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 11.0 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 10.0 book. The book has over 900 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
The book includes the Gnome, KDE/plasma, xfce, and lxde environments. It also includes many applications including browsers, email readers, and office applications.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-11.0-systemd.
You can view the 11.0 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 11.0 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 10.1 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2021/03/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 10.1 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 10.0 book. The book has 856 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
The book includes the Gnome, KDE/plasma, xfce, and lxde environments. It also includes many applications including browsers, email readers, and office applications.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-10.1-systemd.
You can view the 10.1 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 10.1 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 10.0 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2020/09/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 10.0 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 10.0 book. The book has 913 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
The book includes the Gnome, KDE/plasma, xfce, and lxde environments. It also includes many applications including browsers, email readers, and office applications.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-10.0-systemd.
You can view the 10.0 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 10.0 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 9.1 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2020/03/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 9.1 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 9.1 book. The book has 840 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
The System V version of the book includes the Gnome, KDE/plasma, xfce, and lxde environments.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-9.1-systemd.
You can view the 9.1 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 9.1 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 9.0 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2019/09/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 9.0 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 9.0 book. The book has 850 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
The System V version of the book now has added Gnome as an additional desktop environment in addition to the previous KDE/plasma, xfce, and lxde environments.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-9.0-systemd.
You can view the 9.0 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 9.0 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 8.4 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 8.4 book. The book has 700 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-8.4-systemd.
You can view the 8.4 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 8.4 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 8.3 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2018/03/02
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 8.3 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 1000 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 8.3 book. The book has 700 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-8.3-systemd.
You can view the 8.3 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 8.3 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 8.2 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2018/03/02
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 8.2 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 900 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 8.2 book. The book has 813 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-8.2-systemd.
You can view the 8.2 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 8.2 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 8.1 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2017/09/01
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 8.1 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 900 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 8.1 book. The book has 885 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-8.1-systemd.
You can view the 8.1 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 8.1 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 8.0 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2017/02/25
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 8.0 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 800 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 8.0 book. The book has 778 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-8.0-systemd.
You can view the 8.0 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 8.0 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 7.10 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2016/09/07
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 7.10 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 800 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 7.10 book. The book has 810 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes.
This is a coordinated release with BLFS-7.10-systemd.
You can view the 7.10 version at online or download to read locally.
You can view the 7.10 systemd version at online systemd or download-systemd to read locally.
- BLFS 7.9 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2016/03/08
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 7.9 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 800 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 7.9 book. The book has 595 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes. You can view the 7.9 version on online or download to read locally.
- BLFS 7.8 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2015/10/01
The BLFS Team is happy to present version 7.8 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 800 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 7.8 book. The book has 805 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes. You can view the 7.8 version on online or download to read locally.
- BLFS 7.7 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2015/03/06
The BLFS Team is happy to present version 7.7 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 750 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 7.7 book. The book has 711 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes. You can view the 7.7 version on online or download to read locally.
- BLFS 7.6 has been released!
- Bruce Dubbs - 2014/09/23
The BLFS Team is happy to present version 7.6 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 750 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 7.6 book. The book has over 880 updates from the previous version including numerous text and formatting changes. You can view the 7.6 version on online or download to read locally.
The BLFS Team is also happy to introduce a new version of the book based on systemd. This version is based on BLFS 7.6 and is the logical follow up to the LFS systemd book. You can view the 7.6-systemd version at the BLFS-systemd link or download from download-systemd to read locally.