Getting frustrated with Ubuntu....

[neil woolford]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:40 +0800, Brian Walker wrote:
> I have to say I would do the following:
> 
> 1. Install a stock standard Ubuntu 5.10 and play with it
> 2. Get into LFS and build your own from scratch. 
> 
> That way you will have the experience of a "normal" very good linux
> flavour in it's natural state, AND get the experience of going into
> all those little areas a guru would want to learn about.
> 
> When you have supped enough of these two forms of linux, then (and
> only then) would I do unto Ubuntu as you have done unto it beforetime!

I'd agree with that, but suggest looking at Pocket Linux before Linux
From Scratch (LFS).Pocket Linux
( http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Pocket-Linux-Guide/html/index.html ) allows
you to build a tiny but working Linux on a couple of floppy discs, all
from source code.  It is very well documented and you can learn a lot
about how systems work and are put together in just a few hours.  (I
went through the first two-thirds of it while immobilised with a bad
back last Christmas...)

You are guaranteed to learn, and because it is all on a couple of
floppies you can do it without messing up your working system.  That
experience will serve you well when you go on to LFS.

Neil

PS  Note that there is more than one 'Pocket Linux' project, hence the
link above to the one that I mean.
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