On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:23:06 -0600, Mueen Nawaz wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Try LFS, that'll really teach you a lot about linux, even if you don't
>> get a bootable system.
> 
> 	Ugh. You just reminded me of my nightmares with LFS. I didn't 
learn
> much, and mostly copied & pasted the commands. Got it to work. Never
> bothered to go forward with BLFS.
> 
> 	LFS *is* good for learning. However, it and BLFS will probably 
suck
> heavily if you want to use it as your primary system and maintain it.
> That's what led me to Gentoo.

Yeah, I would only use LFS and its derivatives to learn the internals - 
but once started, I'd move on to a "real" distro, like Gentoo, openSUSE, 
Fedora, or Ubuntu.

Personally, I went with openSUSE (after being a RH fan for many years).

Jim

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