25 Oct
2002
25 Oct
'02
1:38 p.m.
Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com wrote:
The main "hassle" is the learning curve. It really isn't for newbies. That said, my Linux knowledge soared when I started playing with it. The second one is downloading every package and compiling it. [...]
I really learnt a lot when doing a real "from scratch" installation based on some old documentation and a boot floppy. I almost recommend that people who want to know how the basics of a distribution hang together try doing something like that with GNU Stow and so on. I'm not sure how having all the builds scripted can be as good, though.