If you're looking to do some learning and actually getting practical shit out of it you should install openbsd
Linux doesn't look good in the long term tbh
What OS do you use ?
Julian Rogers
Joseph Davis
Are you retarded?
Installing an os doesn't help learning system internals by design.
If OP really wants to learn about loonix which is an interesting topic, then OP shoul go ahead and read some articles on kernelnewbies.
Also you fucking annoy me with those lain pics.
Tyler Perry
Daniel Gonzalez
Depends on the OS. If you're just installing poobuntu, sure it doesn't tell you anything.
But if you're installing gentoo or setting up LFS, the installation procedure forces you to know the basic components of the system. Sort of how putting together a PC tells you what the basic components of the computer are. Sure, you won't learn exactly how a CPU works at the transistor level, but you'll get some idea of how the overall system functions.
OpenBSD is also similar. Its installer doesn't hold your hand, and it helps greatly to learn some basic shit such as what all the daemons and programs are called, and how disks are named etc. Sure it isn't a complete understanding but it's significantly better than systems that hand-hold users.
Too bad. Lain is a permanent fixture of this board now.
Colton Ross
I mean you can just copy and pasta the shit from the LFS book for the most part.
But what I mean by learning is not how the cpu works on the transistor level, but at least knowing how the syscalls work.
Or basic understanding of how user space -> kernel space works.
Because knowing how daemons are called and shit like that isn't really something knowledgable, sure it is still know worthy but it's not something that would greatly improve your understanding of computers.
imo if you install ubuntu and reverse engineer software with it, you've been way more productive and learned more than anyone who installed gentoo because it is in the end just compiling software and passing arguments to utils.
Also I gotta admit that lain pic is cute.
Jacob Rogers
I'm not too interested in putting the entire OS together step-by-step and learning about each and every single component I install, that's impractical and you should really learn more about that kind of stuff casually as you USE the OS. I just don't like it when an OS pulls hacky shit like this that stops you from doing things the traditional, universal way every guide will tell you to do in the name of "ease of use" as compared to another UNIX-type OS that does it as a deliberate design choice reflected in the design of the entire thing.
Jaxon James
heh.
Leo Nelson
but you do have to admit though that gentoo has some distinct customisability advantages because of its install process
less bloat is installed, user can choose between systemdicks/openrc, alsa/pissaudio, choose the type of syslogger and crond, C compiler flags, etc.
Maybe for some people it isn't worth it, but for me, if Loonux wasn't pozzed I would definitely have kept gentoo installed. My only complaint about it is that portage is written in slow-ass python.
Daniel Ward
It really is karma, for years average linuxcucks have been spreading FUD about bsd, now they're the one stuck with an unauditable init and corporate backed bluehair trannies, plus the CoC as a weapon to prevent future devs from pointing out potential obvious backdoors. The year of linux desktop IS coming... but in the form of microshit and steam, loaded with proprietary bloat worse than old windows, becareful of what you wish for, it's like pottery, they rhyme.
Jordan Moore