On Monday 11 February 2008 17:30:46 Mauricio Henriquez wrote: > Hi Steve: Hi to both! I'm a Linux Teacher too.
> > 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 I agree, I have using much of the LFS on teaching Linux (courses for SysOps not a entire OS course). I'm not use the book itself, and the objective of the course is not build a Linux from scratch, but I translated some parts and send to the students > (very good job guys!!!). Yes! :-D A very very very good job It's true that LFS save my life on Linux. Without them, I never could reach the knowledge level I needed. > 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... I used LFS to create a very complete server solution to my clients and now I just starting the plan to offer trainning in Linux in my enterprise. The LFS will be the base for that, and I will construct a entire enviroment (with Desktop, virtualization, and so) to give the student a more deep experiment with diverses parts of the system. It's a lot of work. The Steven idea is great, but I agree with Mauricio. The LFS will create a conceptual exercise of how stuffs work, and how its connects each others, not make the cited playground. But you can (with some big efforts) adapt it to yours needs, like I doing! > > 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
