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Its a pitty that Linux itself still cannot be bootstrapped without the Linux env - at least no one has done it yet. Anyway thanks to this reproducible-builds efforts maybe the awarness of this serious problem will grow and we will see more support into the projects like https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap , https://niedzejkob.p4.team/bootstrap/

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I admit I've never tried this, but the Linux kernel seems like just another C program. What's to stop me from installing GNU Make, GNU coreutils, gcc, and binutils cross compiled to target x86_64-linux-elf and bootstrap this? It doesn't sound especially useful, but it does sound like something that would be possible if you focused on it.

Yes, it should work. You aren't in any disagreement actually. It's just that no one has done it yet, but should have.

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