How do I get to Guru status?

[upalom00]

Seriously, I want to learn many of the inner workings of Linux. How do you Gurus do this? I've been doing some reading but it seems like there is so much of it and so many different topics.

In any case, I am glad the Gentoo Community is what it is

[Cossins]

[pjp]

Do stuff. Don't just follow step by step instructions. Try to understand what is going on.

[nixnut]

[stonent]

[spb]

Find an SGI mips machine on ebay and try to install gentoo on that without reading the docs. That should teach you several useful things.

[kimchi_sg]

[spb]

[shash]

Amatures!

Go out and buy a microprocessor (any kind), hard-wire a board for it, and build a homebrew CPU. Now, try getting SELinux running on it!

PS: I'm not a guru!

[Insanity5902]

[Athas]

[krolden]

[shash]

Not necessarily the entire chip...

You can solder yourself the board of a simpler system, though. Like an 8086 or an M68K, or (though I've never seen such) an ARM...

In fact, it's a long-term plan of mine to make an 8086 or an 8051 board that can hook up with the PC through serial port/USB.

[hollywoodcole]

[Khlept0]

If breaking shit could make you a veteran, I'd own this distro.

[Vann]

I learned most of what I know about Linux internals from LFS, so I recommend that, too. I only switched to Gentoo because it became such a pain in the ass to manually configure everything and keep track of what was or wasn't installed.

[christsong84]

trying stuff...askin for help and learning from the responses...helping those with their problems


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[DragonBite]

[Verted]

Yes, I agree with what most people are saying. When I first installed Gentoo (Which was my first distro), I was following the steps, but didnt really understand what each step did, why it was neccessary, etc. Now, 10 months later, I understand pretty much every task I do. I wouldnt say I was a 'Guru', because that would take years, and knowledge on a broader scale. Anyway, it is fair to say that, as with all area's of computers, experience is key.
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[upalom00]

Wow...I didn't t think I would get so many responses. And even more so...so many reads.

I thought I might throw so more stuff out there....

Some of you mention LFS. Well...I thought maybe doing that, and then installing portage on that to simulate Gentoo.
I've also thought of just trying install Gentoo multiple times so I get an understanding of the install instead of a step by step process.

I have a working system now ... and I am happy with it. So, I probably won't trash this one. I think I might just use another hard drive and do the installs and experiementing on that.

Of course, I will continue to do some more reading, asking questions, and maybe even at some point answer some questions. I'm impressed when many of you can answer questions that gets posted on these boards. I hope one day to be at a level of comfort to do the same.

[frameRATE]

[Lechium]

Isn't guru a status based on post count on these boards? So if you're a newb like me who asks TONNNS of questions, you becomes a 'guru' eventually? =)

[spb]

[TheCoop]

[Verted]