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I learned from Gentoo too, after a failed start with RedHat. Basically you would learn from Gentoo's excellent documentation and from constantly breaking things and having to research how to fix them.

Though I'm not sure if the documentation and community support is as good now as it was back in 2001-2003.

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From my experiences with Gentoo a couple of years ago, the documentation is mostly outdated, (although a number of articles have been updated to tell the reader that large portions of the article are out of date and not to be followed.) I eventually gave up working (and failing) with Gentoo at the time because I was rather inexperienced and could never get a working X system using their docs. That said, I still learned a lot about Linux during that period and do not feel as if I wasted that time spent working with Gentoo.

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