Jumping into the deep end - buliding my own kernal, & getting a web and db server up

[MrMark]

G'day

I've decided to start playing around with linux and I wanna start of the fundermentals and work my way up To get my head around the linux I've decided to try and bulid my own linux keneral, complie and install apache to get a web server going, complie and install postges to get a db server going and then writing some basic web app in c++ that pulls some data out of postgres and shoves it out to the world using apache.

I dont expect it to be easy, and i know the easiest solution would be to just use a linux distro, but you don't learn as much doing it that way. I worked as a web/database developer a few years ago and I've done a fair bit of c/c++ and uni (currently 3rd year), so i'm reasonably confident I know enough not to get hopelessly confused :P


So where's the best place to start doing all this ?

[tpl]

welcome to the forum

well, close to the metal like that, I'd recommend either slackware, or debian: both stable, excellent
hacker environments. If you go to http://www.distrowatch.com you'll find the 100 most
popular of some 354 varieties

one of them--maybe gentoo--has you compile locally each program you add (just as in the bad old days

I personally use the currect debian 3.1 w/ plenty stuff in /usr/src.

hack on