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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.

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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

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 :)

I recommend uninstalling python. Great learning experience.

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

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.

Yep. Recompile all the things with different USE flags.

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!

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).

> 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.

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