Howdy, all. Steve and I were discussing this a bit ago on IRC: It'd be a pretty neat idea to have a weekly Linux From Scratch workshop going on at the space this summer. Obviously not at the same time slot as the programming classes, but on a different day.
If you're not familiar with Linux From Scratch, it is a book written to guide someone through the process of building a complete linux system from scratch. You start with a fresh blank harddrive, work out of a minimal bootstrap environment via LiveCD, then begin building your way towards a functional system with an option to continue towards a full graphical desktop. It includes building all of the linux plumbing, such as: * Formatting a filesystem * Creating the filesystem structure * binutils * gcc * glibc * [some 30 other packages and a handful of rebuilds] * Linux kernel I did this myself roughly 10 years ago and learned a *lot* about how the complete Linux operating system works. It is a massive wealth of information and watching compilers compile code. The prerequisites would be: * Using a shell to type in commands The outcomes: * You'd be *very* familiar with the shell * Lots of intimate knowledge of the components running just below the surface of your shiny user interfaces * A linux system that is entirely yours and not based on any existing distribution. Pure vanilla. Thoughts? _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
