I'll mostly agree. If you foresee building any custom embedded Linux systems, even if you like openembedded, it gives you a good picture of what's going on dow

I'll mostly agree. If you foresee building any custom embedded Linux systems, even if you like openembedded, it gives you a good picture of what's going on down there (and a good picture of what openembedded is doing for you). If you want to learn system administration, I really don't see it being that helpful. You'll learn what all the components of the system are and how to build them, but not necessarily how to use them. I'd suggest that if you're a hacker type, you might want to try it anyway, just for fun. :-) But in general the knowledge you get from building LFS or Gentoo or similar isn't actually that useful from a system administrator/power user perspective. I'll also second the comments from other people who built it, and then abandoned it: LFS is too finicky to manage and too hard to upgrade for me to do any real work with it. For me, it's a toy system that I play around with, then reboot into Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/whatever to go get real work done.