Become a Linux Guru

[devicerandom]

On 04/02/11 12:20, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
> On Thu, February 3, 2011 19:50, devicerandom wrote:
>
>> And in any case , step 1 is ditching Ubuntu and going with Gentoo. I
>> used it for years, and it teached me much more about Linux than any
>> binary distribution could.
>
> I have used Gentoo, and I respectfully disagree.
> It's not because your pc spends 80% of its time compiling with the
> -go-faster-stripes and -break-my-cpu compiler options that you actually
> learn something. Except when your name is Neo and you can somehow
> magically absorb knowledge when the compilation output is scrolling across
> your screen in a Matrix-inspired green on black font. :-)

I answered this above. Installing Gentoo is already a learning 
experience. And no, compiling in itself doesn't help -but when you're 
dealing with normal cases (e.g. incompatbile GCC, recompiling a kernel 
often) you learn usually a lot.