In spite of needing something like this a few weeks ago, I wonder what the role of such reduced distributions actually are these days. In my mind the primary v

In spite of needing something like this a few weeks ago, I wonder what the role of such reduced distributions actually are these days. In my mind the primary value is learning. The smaller the system the more likely I can understand how all the parts interact. Once a basic understanding is achieved you can start layering in more and still keep up. Once you get a bit past that it's easy to create recovery media and other interesting boot tools. I'm sure others can think of more but that's the first thing that I think of when I think of LFS, Tiny and to a lesser extent distros like Slackware that still tend to keep things relatively simple.