Hi Steve: I am an IT instructor in the Universidad Austral de Chile and I have to dictate Operating Systems curses and also use LFS for personal porpuses and a big YES is a very good choice for a teaching tool, the studients like the clear approach of the book, the precision and is very entertaining (very good job guys!!!). But also depends on the curse objects, my personal opinion LFS can't be a complete curse of operating systems, becouse with this you can understend how is the architecture of an OS (foldres, libraries, dependencies, main bloks, important parts, etc, etc) , and in part you understend the idea of how the real OS, the kernel, work, LFS is not focused on give you a play ground to make programing exercises if you want that. So, for a more deep OS analisys (and C exercises)I prefer to use a minimalistic kernel like linux-0.1 or minix, even work with the studient in conceptual exercises in C# is also posible and also you can check the SharpOS proyect...
if you want we can share some experiences about that, bibliographi, etc... Cheers, Mauricio Henriquez Steven Locher wrote: > I am an IT instructor with allround experience in Unixes, like Solaris, > FreeBSD, Slackware and Debain - but never had time for LFS. I used to teach C > and Java at the junior level in a university. > > My next subject is going to be Operating Systems where Linux is going to be > the area of application. I got this great idea of starting from scratch: > - students install LFS on VMware-Server on Windows host > - we get a C development environment up > - do the exercises in C on this environment. > > Time frame one semester, starting in Spring! > > I know, I should go through the documents and try it myself. But due to the > limited time available, I would like to ask you whether this is feasible or > advisable. If yes, please post relevant pointers here. > > regards > Steve > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
