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LFS is great to learn how a Linux based system works without all the sweet, sweet magic modern distributions give us. On a personal, nostalgic, note: running L

LFS is great to learn how a Linux based system works without all the sweet, sweet magic modern distributions give us. On a personal, nostalgic, note: running LFS on your laptop in my university was the ultimate Linux nerd cred. A step below, immediately following, there was Slackware. The reason I feel confident enough working with Linux today is because I started back in the early '00 using Slackware, which recently had a new release[1]. Don't get me wrong, compiling your own kernel, solving shared libraries compilation hell, messing up your init.d and starting over, leaving your Pentium 4 compile for several hours was a massive waste of my 20s. But, boy, did I enjoy it! [1]http://www.slackware.com/announce/15.0.php http://www.slackware.com/announce/15.0.php

heurisko 5y ago
> Don't get me wrong, compiling your own kernel, solving shared libraries compilation hell, messing up your init.d and starting over, leaving your Pentium 4 compile for several hours was a massive waste of my 20s. But, boy, did I enjoy it! I had the same experience. I'm surprised how far I went with tasks I wouldn't particularly like to attempt now, purely motivated by the reward of tinkering with things without a sense of fear.
newswasboring 5y ago
>Don't get me wrong, compiling your own kernel, solving shared libraries compilation hell, messing up your init.d and starting over, leaving your Pentium 4 compile for several hours was a massive waste of my 20s. But, boy, did I enjoy it! Apropos to this, I remember back in early 2010s arch linux IRC had a bot which used to make fun of Gentoo for its compile time. One of them was something like "Watching compile text fly by is fun for the whole family". I still think about this some time. Which is funny because in day to day I don't use any compiled languages :P Edit: forgot to quote relevant text. PS: If someone does remember the exact quote, please tell me, it would make my day.
- bmn__ 5y ago
  "Watching shit scroll by for hours makes me a Linux expert overnight!" https://web.archive.org/web/2002/http://funroll-loops.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/2002/http://funroll-loops.org/
  - newswasboring 5y ago
    Thank you so much. I don't know where the fun for whole family part came from though. Probably me mixing two quotes together. But you just gave me back some of my teenage. Thanks again.
  - mekster 5y ago
    To he honest, watching shit scroll actually makes you comprehend what is an error and what is not. It does help figure out informational crap from errors in other situations than being overwhelmed by wall of texts.
- _joel 5y ago
  Same but with ricing Gentoo in the early 2000s

heurisko 5y ago

> Don't get me wrong, compiling your own kernel, solving shared libraries compilation hell, messing up your init.d and starting over, leaving your Pentium 4 compile for several hours was a massive waste of my 20s. But, boy, did I enjoy it! I had the same experience. I'm surprised how far I went with tasks I wouldn't particularly like to attempt now, purely motivated by the reward of tinkering with things without a sense of fear.

newswasboring 5y ago

>Don't get me wrong, compiling your own kernel, solving shared libraries compilation hell, messing up your init.d and starting over, leaving your Pentium 4 compile for several hours was a massive waste of my 20s. But, boy, did I enjoy it! Apropos to this, I remember back in early 2010s arch linux IRC had a bot which used to make fun of Gentoo for its compile time. One of them was something like "Watching compile text fly by is fun for the whole family". I still think about this some time. Which is funny because in day to day I don't use any compiled languages :P Edit: forgot to quote relevant text. PS: If someone does remember the exact quote, please tell me, it would make my day.

bmn__ 5y ago
"Watching shit scroll by for hours makes me a Linux expert overnight!" https://web.archive.org/web/2002/http://funroll-loops.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/2002/http://funroll-loops.org/
- newswasboring 5y ago
  Thank you so much. I don't know where the fun for whole family part came from though. Probably me mixing two quotes together. But you just gave me back some of my teenage. Thanks again.
- mekster 5y ago
  To he honest, watching shit scroll actually makes you comprehend what is an error and what is not. It does help figure out informational crap from errors in other situations than being overwhelmed by wall of texts.
_joel 5y ago
Same but with ricing Gentoo in the early 2000s