I will talk about LFS on January 25th (Japan time, Saturday) in an open source event at Osaka.
There are a many topics to cover. I find it unfortunate that there is not enough time to discuss kernel compilation in detail. As I stated in an earlier post, a major shortcoming in the LFS Book is that it says nothing about project management. Building LFS is a significant project and without basic management skills, one is not likely to succeed. Another way to see this is that if one does succeed, it means that he has management skills which may be worth mentioning in a career resume. I plan to distribute a short questionnaire to attendants. The following are the questions that I would like to ask. If anyone subscribed to the list has suggestions, I'd like to hear. I'll post a digest of the answers around next week. 1. Why are you interested in LFS? (1) To learn about the internals of the operating system (2) Necessary for work (embedded system, IoT, etc.) (3) As a personal challenge: to prove that I can get this done (4) Need a customized system (with what characteristics?) (5) other 2. What operating system / distribution do you regularly use for development? If you use more than one, please list them in descending order based on actual usage. 3. Are you familiar with the following sequence? ./configure make (make check) make install 4. Have you ever compiled the Linux kernel by yourself? (1) Never tried (2) Attempted without success (3) Succeeded at least once but not yet confident (4) Succeeded many times; confident 5. Do you think that a successful LFS build is within reach, given your current computing skills? If you feel that LFS is beyond your skills, can you describe what your shortcomings are? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
