[bitlug] Re: bitlug meet
- From: Peeyush Prasad <peeyush@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bitlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:56:46 +0530 (IST)
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Prasad, Gopal (IE10) wrote:
>
> This is on the plan at present !
>
> 1) What is a kernel ? What is it's job ?
*maybe briefly about the major components of an OS :mem
management,filesystem,IPC,networking, process scheduler,IO,device
drivers,modules... wrt to the Linux kernel (show the src)
> 2) Why GNU/Linux is called so ?
> 3) Why recompile your kernel?
> 4) Kernel Versions, Kernel source layout
* stable, devel versions... major.minor.release-patch number in
2.4.18-3
> 5) Requirements.
* ??
> 6) Building modules
> 7) Configuring the kernel
* this comes before building modules...
> 8) Building the kernel
> 9) Installing the kernel.
> 10) LILO/GRUB configuration
11) /usr/src/linux-2.4/README & linux-2.4/Documentation/*.*
12) optimizing the kernel according to usage...(what stuff is not needed
in a typical home setup..)
btw, some sad news...Shantanu is forced to drop this talk as he leaves
for Germany on monday...for a couple of months...
-P
>
> Lemme know abt ur ideas !! :)
>
> Prasad
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peeyush Prasad [SMTP:peeyush@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:00 AM
> > To: bitlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [bitlug] Re: bitlug meet
> >
> >
> > hi pra.dips,
> > did you guys fix the sequence of the topics?? remember that you have to
> > fit in at least 20 minutes of compilation... look at the kernel compiling
> > howto at tldp.org... what are you going to do in those 20 mins??
> > maybe:
> > some talk on the differences b/w 2.2 and 2.4
> > the hurd project
> > a look at the kernel source layout
> > an explanation of dmesg messages
> > the diff b/w the linux and windows kernels
> > ...
> > lets have a preliminary TOC from you guys, in chronological order...
> > mystery talk??
> > -P
> >
> > the curls in your keyboard cord are losing electricity.
> >
>
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