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Meh. Summary - we need open-source licenses for flying cars, so our children can tinker with the kernel code, since the current Liunx kernel is too complex for
by gm-conspiracy 9y ago
Meh.
Summary - we need open-source licenses for flying cars, so our children can tinker with the kernel code, since the current Liunx kernel is too complex for children starting out.
I've always wondered about teaching Linux "history" via hands-on with older hardware and OS (like 2.x kernel building on an older version of Slackware with a 486 or Pentium 90).
- rijoja 9y agoWell sure but nowadays you can do that with virtual boxes and whatnot. Much more convenient. Remember that build your own linux post from not to long ago? Following those instructions I not only built linux from scratch with custom compiled libc and busybox. Sure I did that when I was 16 or 17, but in those days the same work would have taken me days not hours. And if you want to teach people, you can easily record what is going on on the screen. So you definitely you should do that but with modern tooling. Both for your own sanity and for better outreach!
- gm-conspiracy 9y agoWhat I am trying to get at, your days spent learning what took you hours today, would not have been possible without the foundation you created during those several days as a teenager. I would get nowhere near the experience (and appreciation) of watching you do this on Youtube, compared to the several days experience on real "vintage" hardware.