Re: linux only with linux?

[Austin Kurahone <austin@example.com>]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:43:13PM +0900, Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
> >>>>> "AK" == Austin Kurahone <austin@example.com> writes:
> 
>     AK> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 03:31:49PM +0100, pietro zuco wrote:
>     >> So if someone can, illuminate me please!
>     AK> Don't.  You'll be much happier.  Bootstrapping Linux is a
>     AK> painful expereince that should be avoided at all costs.
> 
> Well why? Austine, illuminate us! Maybe it's the best way to learn
> UNIX
If you mean, learning more than you ever wanted to know about how a UNIX
system fits together, then yes, it is the best way that I've found to learn.

However that being said.
a) It's a largely unducumented process.  Or was, now there's Linux From Scratch
and a few other things that will let you cookbook your way through the process.
Figuring stuff out for yourself is a lot more educational but can be far more
frustrating.

b) Even with documentation, a lot of the process is still convoluted.  Staying
up late into the night trying to figure out why g++ broke mysteriously or doen't
compile is not a fun experience to most[1].

c) Once you do this, maintaining it is a constant expereince.  You can't just go
and grab the latest RPMs/apt-get your way to happyness, you need to do it all
by hand.  Not that this is a bad thing, but it might be too time consuming/
whatever for some.

c) NetBSD.

That being said, it is very educational.  Just something I wouldn't recoment to
most.

-- 
Austin K. Kurahone
Tokyo Linux Users Group / SIGUSR1 R&D
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[1]:Gcc refuses to build unpatched with glibc-2.2.  Patches are available from
http://gcc.gnu.org naturally.

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