Oooh! Can we then make Syn/Hak OS??
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:38 PM, alex kot <[email protected]> wrote: > I am down for this, then again Gentoo is my favorite Distro, so I kind of > been doing this all along. > > > On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 3:34 PM, Torrie Fischer < > [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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