Many years back i was learning slackware , which i think along with Gentoo is the best for getting a real understanding of linux.These skills can then be easily transfered over to any other distros.I started by just reading the offical slackware pdf and not using any gui , only command line.This in itself was the biggest help , as i could easily switch over to another distro and be comfortable using it.Not sure what its like now but i think by starting with ubuntu etc is just wasting time and effort.
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I wouldn't do it from source to start off with - just building a LAMP stack properly with hardening and performance tuning in place is tough. The only time I would build from source is if I need to run a newer version which is not backported on my current version of Linux - TBH in this case I would rather go and upgrade to a more recent version of Linux.
I am not sure what you will learn from compiling from source (unless you become an active contributor to such project) - it just becomes a complete maintenance nightmare (granted, there are some edge cases where you would need to do it, but those would be fairly rare).
It will be good enough already to run Linux without X11/GUI.
This. +1
If you really want to understand the inner workings of Linux, LFS is the way to go, but I would suggest waiting till you reach intermediate level with your Linux skills.
Those Huawei 3G modems have been plug and play on Linux for several years now.Struggling to install this damn Hauwei e173 dongle on Mint.
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