Hi,
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Originally Posted by repu1sion
yeah i know that no one cares. but this is the place for such notes so my posts rather for me than for others.
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If this wasn't actually meant for invoking comments, can I suggest you use your LQ blog for those comments? (Right pane: My LQ -> My Blog)
As you might have noticed, we do care and will reply if we think we can contribute
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about lots of experience - i dont think you will become megaexperienced after building LFS with help of book.
sometimes i was feeling like a monkey that copy/paste commands.
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Building LFS will give you an inside in how Linux works, how things depend on each other and work together. A certain level of existing knowledge of Linux/Unix system administration is even expected when you start (you don't need it, but then it will be a mere copy/paste exercise). You will not become mega experienced after the build, that is for sure, but I do think most learn from the experience.
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about fun. there were not too much. it looks like only few people who started to build lfs by typing commands
from books are able to finish it. i dont have any statistics but feel like that.
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I agree. I think a lot of people jump into LFS without actually knowing what they are getting into and what it stands for/wants to accomplish. Once they find out that it is a lot harder then most expect, they quit (like you, I don't have hard evidence for this.)
For me the fun part started the second time I build LFS (a day or so after my first successful build). I now knew how the book approached the build and how everything was set up and was able to change things to my liking (with all the problems that arose from that, but that's what I consider the fun part

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and what do i finally get? it's still a black box with lots of unneeded and unknown stuff.
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After building LFS you have a fully working CLI environment on which you can build other stuff (not limited to BLFS). LFS is not a minimal Linux install, so I do wonder which unneeded stuff you are talking about.