sanjay choudhury wrote:
Dear Prasanta:Hi You may not need to recompile the source code for modifying the string "PCQ Linux".PC Quest Linux is RHL distribution. Check the various scripts in /etc/rc.d directory. you might get files where you can insert/modify strings of your choice for customising messages. Be careful! ;-) sanjay --- Prasanta Panja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi everybody, i'm new to this group.interested very much in linux.i'm interested to develop the source code for linux,i.e., want to modify the code as i like it.
one example ---> want to change the "PC-QUEST"
string which is written
on the desktop of pcquest linux.
can i modify the kernel code which comes default
with linux package
and loaded in "/usr/src/linux"?
if any one give answer to my queries i would be very much helpful.
regards prasanta -- Prasanta Kr. Panja CMC Ltd.(Kolkata), 28,Camac st. Home Phone-> 91-342-2647463
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It is a slow and steady process to learn Linux Kernel. It took me sometime to get a brief understanding of it, and I have not yet mastered it. But today, I am enjoying working with Linux. I use Linux for my workstation where I am configuring a complete Embedded System environment for ARM using my small ARM board based on Philips lpc2106 chip. Since all the tools available were based on Windows (and very expensive - my finance minister (my wife) did not approve the expense), I went about learning and downloading some GNU, GPL tools and manged to get it going with C, Assembler and Debugger.....so it goes.
I have one embedded system (based on Soekris ) configured as my router, using LFS (Linux From Scratch - compiled each and every piece of code) and it works like a charm. I have a PCQLinux with Oracle 10g loaded on it, another Mandrake10 loaded with my embedded tools (just to check if Mandrake is also suitable for my ARM development)....and another for my DHCP Server to PXE boot my Soekris board...
I know it is luxury to have so much computing power...but it could be all implemented on your home computer too. So, my advise is to start in earnest - all you need is Linux system and access to Internet.
As far your questions on PCQLinux goes here are the answers:
1. To change the Desktop graphics:
Rightclick on desk top -> select Change Desktop Background -> select No Picture
This will give you a blank screen for background.
Now if you want to select a different picture do the following:
The files are in /usr/share/backgrounds/images/
The system uses the deafult.png in this images directory.
You can: mv default.png pcq.png
Select a new png for your default: cp dragonfly.jpg default.png
Now you will have a beautiful dragonfly as your background image
2. To change the CLI login screen where it shows :
PCQLinux ....
Kerenel 2.4......
This text message is displayed from /etc/issue
You can edit it as your choice, keep the second line which shows: Kernel \r on an \m
same as it will display your kernel version and machine type (if you want it)
I hope this information will suffice.
Wishing you success in your career (with Linux).
J.P. Mathew
P.S. If any of you have questions on Embedded Systems using Linux please contact me
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