On Sun, Jun 16, 2002, Orr Dunkelman wrote about "[Haifux] Version 0.6.1 (only spell
checking changes)":
> http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/lecture.ps
A few small comments:
slide 2: You say "Open Source is a concept suggested by Richard Stallman
back in the 1980's". I think both Stallman and his "competitors" would
be annoyed by such a statement: Stallman would tell you he invented "free
software", not "open source" (!), and his competitors would tell you that
well before the 1980's a lot of software came with source (heck, the only
way to get Unix was probably as a source distribution), but this source
was not "free" (like Hannuka candles, you could look at it but not make use
of it, i.e., you couldn't change and redistribute it).
Slide 3: You say "Nowadays, most of the big hardware vendors release also
Linux drivers". That's nice, but is it really true? I never (not even once)
found a Linux driver on the diskette/cdrom accompanying a hardware product.
Most of the drivers I got of the net (for my HP printer, laptop's modem,
sound card, etc.) were written by private individuals by reverse engineering
or by using some unsupported code released once by the hardware company (in
the case of the lucent modem on my laptop).
Slide 13: Should the meaning of the phrase "decriptor table" be obvious
to the listeners, or are you planning to explain it verbally (I see it
is explained on slide 16)?
Slide 18: Fully functional system??? It's only a kernel, and you hardly
do anything with just a kernel. It's possible to stuff a ram-drive ("initrd")
together with the kernel image, though, and that would contain some of the
necessary stuff (shell, libraries, small utilities, etc.) for the system-
from-diskette to actually be usable. I did it once, and it actually works.
BTW, didn't the lecturer object to your having English slides? I assume you're
going to speak in Hebrew...
Anyway, good luck :)
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