Torrie,

Please add my name to the list.

I am now at Level 1:  I can turn the power on and I can spell l.i.n.u.x.

Would like to get to Level 5 by the end of the course.

Should I plan to over-bill a client to pay for a book or course expendables?

Keep me informed.

Philip


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Joshua Csepegi <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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