| Ah, the joys of having a fully split up KDE3 in Gentoo, enabling you to install just the parts you wanted to. So sexy. Sigh... Regarding Mandriva/Mandrake, I'm remembering that as having the cleanest /etc
with just the relevant information in its config files, generated by the installer. And not copy/pasted crap like it was common on Debian, then. PC-LinuxOS took that approach, too. But RPM, nay! As to learning effect, I'm doubtful. https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ would be more appropriate for the foundations. With Gentoo, you're just learning their abstractions, as flexible as they may be. Which one could nowadays do in any virtual machine, as time and motivation permits. Because suspendable on demand. Continue later. Then trying that thing on real iron, and maybe replacing the virtualization host with it, when it passed the smoke test :-) Which applies to both, LFS & Gentoo. |