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aside from something like lfs
what would be the best distro to get into?
I was thinking along the lines of gentoo or arch...
Does anyone have any recommendations? something not so much prefabbed like ubuntu/mint/etc but something well supported (preferably with a large community) a distro that really needs to be built up, one that forces you to really understand the box YOU are building.
aside from something like lfs
what would be the best distro to get into?
I was thinking along the lines of gentoo or arch...
Does anyone have any recommendations? something not so much prefabbed like ubuntu/mint/etc but something well supported (preferably with a large community) a distro that really needs to be built up, one that forces you to really understand the box YOU are building.
i agree, using slackware has definitely taught me alot. at first i couldnt do anything useful with it, but i read alot of man pages and worked at it and now its my primary OS due to how much i learn from it.
it seemed like ubuntu protected me too much, debian was just too massive of an install with all the option ISOs and fedora froze on my laptop.
alot of folks gentoo has alot to offer over slackware as you must compile the entire OS and customize your kernel. this is what im looking to try to advance myself.
aside from something like lfs
what would be the best distro to get into?
I was thinking along the lines of gentoo or arch...
Does anyone have any recommendations? something not so much prefabbed like ubuntu/mint/etc but something well supported (preferably with a large community) a distro that really needs to be built up, one that forces you to really understand the box YOU are building.
Definitely Gentoo! Gentoo gives you all power and depth of LFS (like custom building, optimization) without the massive headache of tracking all your own dependencies. A lot of real smart, knowledgeable people providing user support as well <forums.gentoo.org> They've never let me down when it came to installation or troubleshooting questions.
Definitely Slackware! I've been using Linux in a server environment for years now (mainly Debian). Only recently started with Linux desktop and stuck with Slackware after going through a lot of distros. I've already learned a lot of things I never knew before. Fair to say is I never tried Gentoo
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