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I did this around 2004-2005 in high school, and it was one of the more educational learning experiences I've had. Sadly the resulting system was nigh-unmaintain

by tcoppi 10y ago

I did this around 2004-2005 in high school, and it was one of the more educational learning experiences I've had. Sadly the resulting system was nigh-unmaintainable, on the level of old-school Slackware, so my install only really lasted a year or so before I scrapped it because I wanted to run some newer software.

dozzie 10y ago
Of course it ended nigh-unmaintainable. You need to have deep knowledge of state-of-the-art of system administration already to create something maintainable, but most of the people who start with LFS do so precisely to learn the field (well, very low-level part of it).
morganvachon 10y ago
> Sadly the resulting system was nigh-unmaintainable, on the level of old-school Slackware What is unmaintainable about Slackware, unless by "old-school" you mean older versions that aren't supported anymore, i.e. not maintained? Slackware has been one of the easiest to maintain distros since the beginning; I would know, I've been using it since 1999, and it's one of the few distros that survived the early/mid 90's birth and adolescence of Linux.