You could make a shell for Linux or android.
On Nov 27, 2013 4:18 PM, "Omar Rassi" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
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