LGL is a Linux distribution based on Linux From Scratch (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS).

As the books are very-well maintained and continously updated, they provide a very good platform for a reasonably stable and modern distribution.

As known from the classical Linux Distributions Red Hat and Debian, the installation and maintenance of individual software components (packages) are handled by a dependency-aware package manager, called Laconian Package Manager (LPM).

LGL focuses on:

• General-purpose desktop computers/laptops
• File-, Web, Mail and Database servers
• Network routers, firewalls and VPN gateways

For most parts, LGL follows established standards for Linux distributions. The main differences to the most well-known distros currently:

• installs any packages only relevant to desktop computers under /opt/X11
• installs some larger applications (Apache Web Server, Samba File Server, Firefox, PostgreSQL and others) under /opt
• uses SysV-style init and rsyslog logging instead of systemd
• uses Xfce4 as desktop environment
• uses alsa instead of pulseaudio for sound
• uses no initrd for regular setups with a sata-based root filesystem (initrd is supported for other purposes)

While above mentioned points are strict design decisions, the following limitations might/will change in future releases.

• does currently only support X11 and no wayland on the desktop
• does currently not support efi boot
• uses currrently traditional crontab (Vixie Cron 4.1) and at for job scheduling

The current release of LGL is LGL-2.7