hey gang,

ever since I discovered linux I've always wanted to learn more about it constantly. I've only really started to customize my system now and keep learning more about it each day.. and now that I finally got cedega to start running most of my games under the linux kernel, I've been thinking of creating my own linux system purely from source code.

I've played around with knoppix and pretty much use it as a boot cd in case my system fails. so far all I've been using knoppix for is to pretty much bring linux with me to my friends houses, and to repartition my drives. but I never did get knoppix to write to a linux partition before... it would always give me an error message and it would never save anything to the hard drives if i booted from the cd.

would it be possible to use knoppix to let me build my entire linux system from pure source code? grab the kernel sources compile and place them onto a drive of my choosing and all that good and happy stuff? I know the entire idea is very advanced and difficult. but this would just be a project designed to do one thing. Teach me more about linux and how it works. I think that would do me very well, and the promise of using the knowledge that I gain from this to make myself one hell of a fast gaming machine is very very appealing.