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Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of itSlackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of itPosted Mar 22, 2011 23:40 UTC (Tue) by jcm (subscriber, #18262)Parent article: Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of it
Oh, and I would still encourage people who really want to understand every aspect of Linux to spend some time without the gloss for a while. I got into it when I was 14, and there's nothing like learning by having to figure out what fsck is the first time you need it. In those days, you had to figure stuff out because nobody was going to help you. It's like how doing a Linux from Scratch install is a good idea sometime just to know how things work together (I can't be the only person who refuses to use something I don't understand inside out).
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Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of it Posted Mar 23, 2011 7:45 UTC (Wed) by jiu (subscriber, #57673) [Link]
for people who want to tinker and learn, I think archlinux is even better, as it also gives you a taste of the latest and greatest (at the expense of stability).
Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of it Posted Mar 23, 2011 11:47 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
You are most definitely not. On lkml and the toolchain lists I suspect you'd have to search very hard to find anyone without that attitude!
Slackware 13.37: Linux for the fun of it Posted Mar 24, 2011 21:56 UTC (Thu) by Kamilion (subscriber, #42576) [Link]
Another +1 for Linux From Scratch.
"Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but..." I was involved with those guys ten years ago; still have one of the very first print copies of the LFS 4 book. Big thanks to Jesse Tie Ten Quee (highos) and Gerard Beekmans for all of the tough work in the early days!
Seriously. Spend three months working with Linux From Scratch, and you will have a depth of understanding that will carry you through many years of linux. I moved on to Gentoo (just -Os -pipe, thank you, no rice here.) and then onto Debian and Ubuntu, where I've stayed for quite a long time.
I simply don't have the time to tinker that I did in my youth, I don't have the energy to './configure; make; make install' for every package, and things like Zentyal and ROS sitting on top of Ubuntu gives a nice range of application specific derivatives without spending a lot of effort to set them up properly.
"...of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong." -- Dennis Miller
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