I did this back in highschool (so 1ate 90s). It was a really fun experience but I don't think I learned as much as I had hoped. I learned a lot about bootstrapp

I did this back in highschool (so 1ate 90s). It was a really fun experience but I don't think I learned as much as I had hoped. I learned a lot about bootstrapping a system but not how to maintain it. It turns out package managers are really important for that. I ended up using the system for a few months until it collected enough cruft that I started over with some other distro.