What is the next step after Ubuntu?

Question

I'm wondering what is next in my road to learning linux. I stared with Ubuntu and now I am feeling a bit bored with it. I am comfortable with navigating around in terminal and building programs from source. What do you recommend I try as a next step? I was thinking about jumping in to Linux from Scratch or possibly Gentoo linux. I'd like for what ever it is to use the same terminal commands im already used to. I think Ubuntu uses bash, but I read somewhere it uses Dash. I'm still a little unclear on that.

I do still like Ubuntu and will keep it as my main OS but I want to still move on to the next level.

Answer 1

Linux is a constant learning curve. If you have mastered a particular distro. I would suggest moving on to something more advanced. For example if you have been working with Ubuntu then the natural way forward would be Debian which requires a deeper knowledge of APT.

http://www.debian.org/



For an even more advanced distro. take a look at Gentoo

http://www.gentoo.org/



You could also consider learning UNIX. FreeBSD is a good place to start

http://www.freebsd.org/





LUg.

Answer 2

A list of distros that are generally considered "advanced":



Arch

Gentoo

Slackware

Linux From Scratch



The terminal commands will be the same, as they are all Linux; it's the various package management systems that will differ in operation, plus whether you are compiling or using binaries.

Answer 3

It does use Bash... Dash is a new user interface that is used in Unity, it sort of replaces the panel (although poorly in my opinion, but I am no fan of Unity anyway). If you want to push yourself to more learning, try doing some 'de-bugging' You can join the Ubuntu community and help de-bug problems in the newest releases.

Answer 4

What do you mean by next step? Linux is just a GUI (GNOME) built on top of a system kernel, that's about it. Not much past that.. you can participate in forums, debug, join opensource projects like Chromium, eat a cheese steak while running down the street singing nude etc.. whatever you want.

Answer 5

Why not testing and developing for Ubuntu?