| 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728 | <sect1 id="pre-whoread"><title>Who would want to read this book</title><para>This book is intended for Linux users who want to setup their own custombuild Linux system. Reasons for wanting to build such a system arediverse. Perhaps you want to get into more detail as to whathappens behind the scenes. Perhaps you are fed up with distributionswhich are often bloated or perhaps you don't want to rely on pre-compiledbinaries due to security concerns. There are many reasons why you may want a custom build system, but if you are one of them, this book is meantfor you.</para><para>The fruits of building your own system are plentiful, but the labour maybe hard. You have a long way ahead of you but in the end you will beable to call yourself the proud owner of your own Linux system,completely tailored after your needs. You dictate the layout ofbootscripts, the file system hierarchy , which programs are installed inwhich directory, which versions of software to use and more. Perhaps themost important reason is that you know exactly what is installed wherewhy and how.</para></sect1>
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