There's only so far Gentoo goes. I ran Gentoo for years, and learned a lot, but eventually stopped learning more about Linux and was only leaning about Gentoo's

There's only so far Gentoo goes. I ran Gentoo for years, and learned a lot, but eventually stopped learning more about Linux and was only leaning about Gentoo's weird structure. That said, it's a great intro, and will teach you a lot of the prerequisites to getting LFS working.