On the one hand, I was already planning to go through the LFS procedure to set up my second box, as a way of learnig as much as I can, but I've kept putting it off as things came up... perhaps I'll try Gentoo as sort of a midway step between them. It sounds interesting, I've got to admit.
On the other hand, it's that sort of attitude - the belief that you have to be a Unix Guru or you shouldn't be on the computer at all - that sells so many copies of Windows to people who would be better off with Linux. I might have put off trying Linux indefinitely if I'd had to start from scratch just to use it, and I'm a fairly competent programmer; I wouldn't have had the patience to start learning a new system by recompiling the kernel. What, then, of the novices who don't know what a kernel is? I nkow you were kidding, but I think it has been a serious problem in the Linux community.
On the gripping hand, my main use of Linux is as a development platform for my *own* OS, anyway. Do You Believe That?
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