14. Administrivia

14.1 Copyright

This document is copyright (c) 1999, 2000 Greg O'Keefe. You are welcome to use, copy, distribute or modify it, without charge, under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. Please acknowledge me if you use all or part of this in another document.

14.2 Homepage

The lastest version of this document lives at From Powerup To Bash Prompt as does its companion ``Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code''.

There is a French translation at From Powerup To Bash Prompt thanks to Dominique van den Broeck. A Japanese by Yuji Senda is coming soon, if it's not at Japanese Documentation and FAQ Project already.

14.3 Feedback

I would like to hear any comments, criticisms and suggestions for improvement that you have. Please send them to me Greg O'Keefe

14.4 Acknowledgements

Product names are trademarks of the respective holders, and are hereby considered properly acknowledged.

There are some people I want to say thanks to, for helping to make this happen.

Michael Emery

For reminding me about Unios.

Tim Little

For some good clues about /etc/passwd

sPaKr on #linux in efnet

Who sussed out that syslogd needs /etc/services, and introduced me to the phrase ``rolling your own'' to describe building a system from source code.

Alex Aitkin

For bringing Vico and his ``verum ipsum factum'' (understanding arises through making) to my attention.

Dennis Scott

For correcting my hexidecimal arithmetic.

jdd

For pointing out some typos.

David Leadbeater

For contributing some ``ramblings'' about the kernel deamons.

Dominique van den Broeck

For translating this doc into French.

Matthieu Peeters

For some good information about kernel deamons.

John Fremlin

For some good information about kernel deamons.

Yuji Senda

For the Japanese translation.

Antonius de Rozari

For contributing a GNU assembler version of UNIOS (see resources section on the home page)

14.5 Change History

0.8 -> 0.9 (November 2000)

• Incorporated some information from Matthieu Peeters and John Fremlin on kernel deamons and the /proc filesystem.

0.7 -> 0.8 (September 2000)

• Removed instructions on how to build a system, placing them in a separate document. Adjusted a few links accordingly.
• Changed homepage from learning@TasLUG to my own webspace.
• Completely failed to incorporate a lot of good material contributed by various people. Maybe next time :(

0.6 -> 0.7

• more emphasis on explanation, less on how to build a system, building info gathered together in a separate section and the system built is trimmed down, direct readers to Gerard Beekmans' ``Linux From Scratch'' doc for serious building
• added some ramblings contributed by David Leadbeater
• fixed a couple of url's, added link to unios download at learning.taslug.org.au/resources
• tested and fixed url's
• generally rewrite, tidy up

0.5 -> 0.6

• added change history
• added some todos

14.6 TODO

• explain kernel modules, depmod, modprobe, insmod and all that (I'll have to find out first!)
• mention the /proc filesystem, potential for exercises here
• convert to docbook sgml
• add more exercises, perhaps a whole section on larger exercises, like creating a minimal system file by file from a distro install.
• add makefile hack to bash build instructions - see easter notes.