Somehow LFS didn't help me understand the various subsystems... all I remember is long sed patches and compilation logs It did teach me how subtle a running st

Somehow LFS didn't help me understand the various subsystems... all I remember is long sed patches and compilation logs It did teach me how subtle a running stable OS is underneath though, as, after my first standalone boot, I could enjoy a partially working TCP stack: elinks could browser, curl couldn't, irssi sometimes, all of this with random terminal display codes being inserted.