[clue-talk] best/worst/most interesting distro?

[Bruce Ediger]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Mike Bean wrote:

> I heard that.  Learn a distro, you learn that distro, learn gentoo or
> slackware, and you learn *linux. I think that's why I'm kind of gravitating
> towards fedora.  It strikes me as a sort of halfway step in terms of
> challenge, get comfortable with it, then I can try Sabayon, then Arch, then
> Gentoo*

Can someone add if doing Gentoo is a different experience?  I'm a longtime
Slackware guy, but I did LFS maybe 3 or 4 years ago.  Never did anything
with it, put Slackware 12.0 over that partition.  Will I learn much from
a Gentoo installation?