r/linuxfromscratch

Hey folks, sorry if this isn't the place to ask but I figured if anybody would be interested in this it would be y'all.

Starting this summer, another dev and I are planning to start a free and open source voxel game that attempts to balance deep simulation with approachable gameplay- and we're gonna need some help.

For most people, it's just going to be a fun game. But my real goal, 'secretly,' is to lead as many normies over to FOSS as possible.

Now, seeing as how this game takes place on a spaceship, I've been thinking for some time that it ought to have an LCARS-inspired in-game computer system, which for a while I figured we should just worry about later.

But the other day, it hit me: 'what if the-in game operating system was actually a *real* linux distro? I realize that sounds like an over-the-top amount of work, but it would nicely create the perfect breadcrumb trail for us:
gamer gets the game on steam --> plays game ---> starts using in-game computer system ----> 'holy smokes there's a real version of this?? Gimme gimme! --> Boom, new FOSS-head.

There will be some significant challenges though- for starters, I have a .txt doc with about 80 novel/seminovel UX ideas sitting on my desktop, lol.
Additionally, the embedded OS has to be as performance friendly as can reasonably be achieved, since the base game will likely be pretty performance intensive.

Oh, and did I mention that I have plans to try and re-unite the long estranged TUI and GUI frameworks? Yea again, I know it sounds over the top- but I think that particular split is actually one of the main barriers that trips people up on their journey to full-stack development.

The neat thing about it being a real distro though, is that we can actually create a version of the game that players can boot directly into, allowing them to really juice their machines for maximum performance.

I'm going to be completely honest with you guys, I'm still Minty-fresh on linux, and I've actually shipped any production grade code- but this other dev? She's the real deal. I actually think if we can get just a few more serious devs to help get this off the ground, we might have something really special. (I'm open to commissions/hiring down the line, by the way.)

My next steps, personally, are to do a little git practice, and then make the aquarium on late.sh as a warmup to TUI development. Ideally, at that point, I'd like to get started on the OS, and develop it in parallel with the simulation kernel. (We'll be using Luanti as the rendering engine, btw, at least for now.)

First try in LFS, permitted operation not permitted.

I'm following step-by-careful-step the process described in the LFS Handbook from the March 5, 2026 for stable systemd. Booting with the April Gentoo CD.

I have repeated the instructions many times, trying to learn along the way, for weeks. Naturally, I have to shut off down my system and resume later. As stated in the handbook, I have to remount the $LFS filesystems, recreate the lfs group and user and reconfig bash each time.

My $LFS/sources directory contains nothing but tarballs and patches. No error-created files, hidden or otherwise, have been left behind to contaminate the build.

My next step would be to zap all partitions and start from scratch, but before I do that I'm checking in here with those who have made this journey before me. Any ideas?