CLUEnix [was Re: [CLUE-Cert] Next meeting]

HASSAN BOROUSHAN gilan99 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 20 16:58:49 MDT 2003


I am interested to take part in cert meeting but the
problem is I do not know when you start new
project/sutdy session please let me know 


     thank you Hassan Boroushan
--- Dennis J Perkins <djperkins at americanisp.net>
wrote:
> 
> > Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > > Because we can. :)  Actually, we went thru the
> Linux From Scratch book 
> > > and learned how things fit together.  The next
> step seemed to be trying 
> > > to build our own little distro.  Admittedly, it
> will be a lot of work 
> > > and is obviously not for most people.  But it's
> fun.
> > 
> > I figured, and it probably is fun.  I would be
> more interested in 
> > learning how to build packages for "my favorite
> distro," or perhaps how 
> > "my favorite distro's" installer works.  A little
> like the difference 
> > between learning how Linux works and writing your
> own Posix kernel.
> > 
> > But since I hardly ever make meetings, most of you
> are probably more 
> > interested in something other than my opinions.
> ;-)
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
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> 
> CLUEnix?  Hmm.  We did wonder what to call it. 
> Jeff, what do you think?
> 
> Well, you could learn how to build an installer but
> it would be specific to 
> what we do.  I do know that text-based installers
> are using dialog or cdialog 
> to ask questions and I have found two programs that
> I hope will work for 
> testing hardware.  I know how I want to do part of
> the build engine.
> 
> I've never built .RPM or .deb packages.  If you are
> using gentoo, I think I 
> know roughly what it does, but I don't know how it
> handles dependencies.  I 
> might need to install it just to explore its package
> manager.
> 
> At this stage, opinions are very welcome.  We are
> just getting started.
> 
> 
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