Tangent - when I was 18, I wanted to be hardcore. I thought I was above Fedora and a (then up and coming) Ubuntu. So I printed out the compile-from-scratch manu

Tangent - when I was 18, I wanted to be hardcore. I thought I was above Fedora and a (then up and coming) Ubuntu. So I printed out the compile-from-scratch manual for Gentoo. It was a solid 20 pages front and back. I made it four pages in and gave up. This link gave me flashbacks to that manual.