Re: Why Debian

[Neal Murphy <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu>]

On Sunday, November 10, 2013 03:54:31 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 14:27 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > linuxfromscratch.org
> 
> IMO there's no need for a user to know all the details, however,
> something FreeBSD port like, e.g. Arch Linux IMO is more pleasant than
> Linux from scratch. It's also possible to learn about Linux, by using
> FreeBSD, e.g. Debian's FreeBSD instead of Linux. OTOH a user is free to
> start with a minimal Debian install, so Linux from scratch, Arch,
> FreeBSD etc. aren't needed to learn the details.

If one only wants to learn to use the system, Debian with XFCE may be one of 
the easiest.

But if one wants to learn how to *build* a working GNU/Linux system from 
source (that is, learning the steps involved), LFS may be hard to beat.