Looking to make a distro but i am a noob and want to learn?

[slartie]

Holy shit. It pays off to trawl the forum for older posts sometimes. Excuse me while I go wipe the tears away.

[mirix]

If this fellow is really wanting to learn, I would dare to suggest Linux From Scratch (LFS) or something like that.

I am currently giving Funtoo a try (that is why I have not been trolling here of late), and it is great. But still too easy, with all those configuration scripts and stuff.

I think I would have learnt a lot more if I had to configure everything by hand ;-)

I still need to test it for a few more weeks in order to check whether is as usable as Debian and whether it is stable enough (whether updates break something and so on), but, performance-wise, it seems like a keeper.

The main problem is that compiling everything from source takes a little while... ;-)

[wuxmedia]

killx?
why not go for LFS?
although reading through the LFS docs, made me wanna run back to debmummy.

[machinebacon]

^ is there anybody who has run LFS for longer than a few days/weeks? Or anybody who runs LFS *only*? Nah :D

[mirix]

^ is there anybody who has run LFS for longer than a few days/weeks? Or anybody who runs LFS *only*? Nah :D

I do not now of anyone. Well, maybe the developers ;-)

However, I, a Debian user since 2008, am seriously considering migrating to something like Gentoo or Funtoo. I am exploring Funtoo on a test laptop and, in a few weeks, I will decide on whether or not it would be a good idea migrating my workstations.

As I said, it will depend mostly on stability and on whether or not the performance gain compensates for the time and resources spent compiling.

I use my workstations for number-crunching and they are typically using their full capacity all the time. Some calculations last for months and so any performance gain would be welcome.

[dkeg]

Some calculations last for months

Sounds interesting.

[elixir]

This thread is fantastic. I laughed so hard. I am just oh so sorry that you all had to deal with the non-sense. I know I came I was a noob but kidx never seemed to try to learn on his own. I am glad you guys actually like me and accept me into the community :)

[wuxmedia]

I know I came I was a noob but kidx never seemed to try to learn on his own.

And you do/did learn on your own!
I was reading back through some of my oldest posts, wow. what a luser! (I still am) 8)

[elixir]

I was just curious of why some people were put on the troll lists. And wux, I am sure you were not even a loser at all. :D

[machinebacon]

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That's all I gotta say.