[Ilugc] My First Session for Engineering students
- From: kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kapil Hari Paranjape)
- Date: Tue Jul 22 11:33:14 2008
Hello,
Some thoughts on this discussion.
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Ashok Gautham J. wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:33 PM, senthilraja P <technocraze@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Some suggestions:
1. What i have done is very basic thing, that need not require any
expertise
or great skills. However, to actually get a momentum, we need to establish
knowledge pockets, on advanced technicalities like Building a Linux Distro
from source, knowledge on compiling methods, linux programming etc.
LFS was one of the most interesting things I did :D. And yeah. I believe ABS
must be a part of every Linux curriculum. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
Following through with LFS upto the point where you can create a
self-building system is instructive in some ways. However, it is not
for everyone. In particular, it may be useful for those who want to
work on a kernel or libc, but not for people who work on/with
applications which are cross-platform.
I am wondering if we need customized distros.
I don't think we need yet-another-distribution. Learning to improve
and develop the tools used to build, develop, maintain the existing
distributions is far more fruitful. Of course, someone may have a very
nice new idea about _how_ to package software in which case creating a
new distribution would be worthwhile.
The idea behind customised (sub) distributions is to pick, choose and
configure packages that are relevant to a specific community. This
works by using the _same_ package lists and stable repositories as the
main distribution. At most some customising packages (which could
even be dummy or arch independent) are added. Any one who installs
such a customised distribution then has easy access even to those
packages that were _not_ chosen and customised.
Regards,
Kapil.
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