Learning Linux from scratch

Damien has mentioned that he is going through LFS and building linux
from scratch. This is a worthy exercise and anyone wanting to learn
about Linux from the ground up will be happy they made the trip.

Additionally, since putting the Nevaeh vmplayer appliance on
ftp.aklug.org, it seems a few of you have downloaded it and only one
has said they started it and played with it a little.

I'd like to start a series, via e-mail to work with this distribution.
 From my perspective, it's claim to fame is that it is small, versatile
and aimed at folks wanting to learn linux but also want a production
level (at least for the server) OS.

Some of Nevaeh's main features are that everything is kept as close to
the minimum as possible but never cutting you off from expanding things.

If this sounds interesting to you folks, let me know, and I'll put an
outline together and we can get started.

One question you might ask is, what in the world would you want to use
such a bare bones distro, when you have Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu?

The simple answer is, I don't want to become a Microsoftie of Linux. I
think it is awesome that all the neat GUI tools that are out there and
make my desktop easy to use. But I also want to be able to manipulate
these things at a closer to the hardware level.

Maybe this doesn't interest everyone....I'm fairly certain about that,
but hopefully it will provide an avenue of appreciation for all the
work that distros like Fedora, Suse and Ubuntu do for us.

Mike B.

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Received on Tue Mar 13 21:55:24 2007