On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:49:37AM -0000, Ambrosio Berdijo Jr. wrote:
>
> Well said. But some of us using Linux aspire to become hackers rather than
> providers of stable linux/open solution to clients. So the knowledge of
> what happens "under the hood" is more valuable than the ease of an rpm
> update. And there are a lot of hoods to look under in any UNIX system.
>
Well, if this is really what you want to do, then the best choice of
"distro" would be Linux from Scratch! :)
I've long wanted to try my hand at doing that, but nowadays I don't
have the time. Doing it that way requires a fairly high investment in
both time and bandwidth. Unless someone can get ahold of the packages
listed in http://linuxfromscratch.org/ and burn them onto a CD (are
you listening cousin?).
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