"A fun but largely pointless exercise in setting up a Linux distro." When it comes to using C keep in mind a lot of developers are interested in lower-level in

"A fun but largely pointless exercise in setting up a Linux distro." When it comes to using C keep in mind a lot of developers are interested in lower-level interactions--perhaps at the hardware level. There is probably value in creating simplified, isolated environments that can test certain features in a VM. "For educational purposes it's acceptable but still less effective than simply creating an educational environment on an existing distro." How is it less effective? If anything the author now knows more about setting up a full environment and can tailor make a minimal setup to showcase some specific features. These minimal setups can then be hosted in a VM preconfigured for students. Just some thoughts. I've never done LFS or taught C programming. Though I do use C often and enjoy the language, warts and all :)