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LFS, or gentoo from a stage 1 tarball, is something that is extremely valuable to do. Once. Once is usually enough.

• pfranz 6y ago
  Once is generally enough. I did it awhile back and have tried to reference LFS for major changes that have been adopted since I last did it like EFI and LUKS. I'm glad to see it getting updates.
• IgorPartola 6y ago
  I ran Gentoo in college for a couple of years. Oh god the compilation.
  • rvense 6y ago
    I ran Gentoo for about a week a long time ago. On a 400 MHz Powermac G4. By which I mean, I installed Gentoo once and then decided I didn't like it.
    • timw4mail 6y ago
      It still works for PowerPC Macs :)
• _rtld_global_ro 6y ago
  gentoo is too addictive, unless you want `emerge` as part of your routine
  • hprotagonist 6y ago
    i already use emacs, what’s one more thing?
• boomboomsubban 6y ago
  As someone who tried running Gentoo in the past, I could never find a decent resource for helping me figure out what make flags I wanted to set. It was far more confusing than FreeBSD, which at least provided rudimentary descriptions for each flag before compiling. I may have been missing something obvious though.