On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Nick Scholtes <airchia at gmail.com> wrote: > Have goals - > Yes, I agree with having a goal in mind first. I was thinking about this. > What about re-building the kernel? Or maybe de-compiling (you can do that, > yes?) and re-compiling several programs would give me good practice. > Thoughts? > I think someone already said this, but - go with gentoo. Their documentation is exactly what you are after. They explain every step of the instalation, building from source, etc - all in CLI. And a lot of couces to make, so you can play with it as much as you want. AFAIK, now they provide pre-build installation packages, but you should be able to go with the "source" way. Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap.