[dvno42]

Between LFS and Stage 1 and 2 Gentoo installs back in the early 2000s during High School, this gave me a big leg up in my journey of learning about computers and Linux. I can't thank those project maintainers enough for helping me get my footing at such a young age and peaking my interest in computing. I ended up printing out the LFS book in segments on one of the printers in High School and brought it home in pieces to use on the home computer.

[tehf0x]

Amen to that! 20 years later this was my gateway drug into being addicted to computers and gave me my full stack understanding I still use every day at work. <3 Gentoo and the friendly geek at the coffee place I worked at when I was 14 who gave me my first hit and held my hand through what is effectively mental torture for most people

[_joel]

Same, ricing Gentoo taught me a lot about linux and mainly how to fix it. 20+ year career later... I'm still learning how to fix it :)

[account42]

I recommend uninstalling python. Great learning experience.

[coolgoose]

Same here, the amount of times I did gentoo stages from knopix live cd's is too much.

[dontdieych]

Hey, I'm looking at mirror. :D

> Between LFS and Stage 1 and 2 Gentoo installs back in the early 2000s

> I ended up printing out the LFS book in segments on one of the printers

LFS and Gentoo is what made me understand Linux system.

[hi-v-rocknroll]

Yep. Recompile all the things with different USE flags.

[_joel]

Recompiling the entire openoffice so it loads 1 second quicker.. just using a hacked up distcc cluster and a day's worth of CPU time. Bargain!

[account42]

It can actually be a bargain though. CPU time I can buy with money, life time is a lot more difficult to extend (not to mention the frustration a second of startup time can cause).

[oorza]

> I ended up printing out the LFS book in segments on one of the printers in High School and brought it home in pieces to use on the home computer.

I am actually flabbergasted there's another human being on Earth that has this exact same story as me. I used one of those giant 3 ring legal binders for my printed copy, lmao.