Linux as a Long-Term Study Subject
Linux still feels larger and messier to me than FreeBSD, which is exactly why understanding it remains a worthwhile challenge.
Draft translated from a short Org note. It is a scaffold for a future systems article.
The Linux kernel looks complex from the outside, especially in contrast with the cleaner whole-system feeling I get from FreeBSD. That complexity is not a reason to avoid it. It is a reason to study it more deliberately.
What I have used
My path through Linux distributions has already been broad:
- Ubuntu
- Fedora
- LFS
- Arch and Manjaro
- Gentoo
- OpenWrt
- Guix
What this article should become
Eventually this piece should explain not just which distributions I used, but what each one taught me about packaging, system boundaries, and the culture around operating systems.
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