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For me it taught, that how open independent systems, talking same language, can come together and build something truly open. If you don't like one library, you can write/find another and just plug that in. Such beauty.

In fairness, I struggle to imagine that someone who finished LFS wouldn't be at least decently familiar with unixy systems; it's a load of practice running stuff in a shell and if you're paying any attention it makes you look at most of the core packages installed on most systems, so you should walk away with passing familiarity with all those parts.

Then you should try slackware, install a minimal system and compile the rest. It helps if you have programmer experience since, although there are build script for every package you need to find the dependencies yourself by looking at error messages.