[NBLUG/Announce] General Meeting Announcement: Intro to building a Kernel

WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: Introduction to building a Linux Kernel SPEAKER: M.E. (http://mike.passwall.com/) WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol http://nblug.org/directions.cgi http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html WHEN: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 @ 7:30PM This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place. NBLUG meetings are open to all and are free of charge. Description: The "Acting President of NBLUG" will jabber on about installing and upgrading a kernel by building it from source. "Why?" will be covered, and general procedures to make the process easier will be included. He hopes to make this an intermediate level presentation. If you are new to Linux, this might be nice to see -- even if you do not plan to build a custom kernel, as you can see what is available to you if you should ever decide to build one later. If you have built your own kernel, applied diff-patches, and/or modified your kernel, you will likely not gain much benefit from this introduction/ (I will not be covering the actual source code, or internal workings of the kernel.) Bio: M.E. is the acting president of NBLUG while we are in transition to having elected officers. (Expect new bylaws and constitution to be posted soon.) He is an active member on the list, and is sometimes helpful. ;-) Having been a member of NBLUG since the first meeting, and a user of Linux for nearly a decade, M.E. has really enjoyed the Linux lifestyle. Wrote majority of RFP for 3 story tall book robotic system, was project coordinator for its integration, and acceptance director. http://mike.passwall.com/ars/ Reverse engineered Apple's NetBooting protocols from Mac OS X Server, and ported the system over to Linux after modifying the source code to ISC's DHCP Server (proof of concept) to permit Apple machines to NetBoot Mac OS from a Linux Box. http://mike.passwall.com/macnc/ Work-in-progress "Introduction to networking" pages that describe some things such as the ISO OSI 7 Layer model: http://mike.passwall.com/networking/netmodels/ and links to other "stuff" like breaking down the contents of a TCP header and IP header: http://mike.passwall.com/networking/ And "Useless Trivia" like computer passwords found in movies and computer security too: http://mike.passwall.com/uselesstrivia.html Plus other "stuff" ;-) OTHER UPCOMING NBLUG EVENTS: July 8 : How to deal with spam (panel review) August 12: Not Disclosed September 9 : Using the GIMP (tentative)