On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 8:14 PM, AJ ONeal (Home) <coola...@gmail.com> wrote: snip
> I've got a friend who knows his way around the command line, but it's time > for him to get his hands dirty and build a kernel, know what all the lines > in /etc/passwd and whatnot mean, know the truth and light of philosophy > behind the naming conventions of /usr, /root, /sbin, and all of the fun > nitty gritties. > Sadly, these will vary distro to distro. > > What shall I recommend to him? > > Also, is Gentoo still the thing for really getting nasty with Linux, or is > Arch sufficient? Or should one truly Linux From Scratch? > I have been using Gentoo for 16 years... not quite so nasty anymore.. too bad. I miss using stage one installs. If you are trying to avoid systemd, you'll want Gentoo, LFS, or Slackware. My brother moved from Gentoo to Arch because he was tired of compiling updates. I have been playing with FreeBSD because Linux is getting less unixy lately. > Give me your best rants and raves, please. :) > > AJ ONeal > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
