I need to educate myself as a Linux admin/user, and I need to learn proper troubleshooting tools (strace is cool, btw), equivalents to the ones I mentioned above. Do I need to do Linux From Scratch?

A look at how and more importantly why someone should consider learning Linux from scratch.

Think you can make a better fast-booting, Chrome-focused OS than Google? Want to craft a custom Linux system that boots from a USB stick? SUSE Studio gives you 15 GB to do exactly that, and you do ...

Beyond Linux From Scratch discusses adding software packages for many common use cases: GUIs and display managers, servers, multimedia, networking utilities, and so on.

Void Linux offers an unusual alternative to many of the traditional Linux distros affiliated with a larger Linux family such as Debian or Ubuntu or Arch. Void Linux is an independently developed, ...

Jack Wallen demonstrates how to install software from the command line on Ubuntu, AlmaLinux, Arch Linux, and openSUSE.

Void Linux was developed by a relatively small group of volunteers who built the system and its package manager from scratch. Command line issues aside, this distro comes with a nice range of ...

I'm interested in installing some sort of package management tool on a Linux from scratch install. Either RPM, YUM, or Apt. I realize I could easily install a distro that includes package ...