<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>From Power Up To Bash Prompt: Administrivia</TITLE> <LINK HREF="From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-13.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html#toc14" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> Next <A HREF="From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-13.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html#toc14">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s14">14. Administrivia</A></H2> <H2><A NAME="ss14.1">14.1 Copyright</A> </H2> <P>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 <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public Licence</A>. Please acknowledge me if you use all or part of this in another document. <P> <H2><A NAME="ss14.2">14.2 Homepage</A> </H2> <P>The lastest version of this document lives at <A HREF="http://www.netspace.net.au/~gok/power2bash">From Powerup To Bash Prompt</A> as does its companion ``Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code''. <P> <P>There is a French translation at <A HREF="http://www.freenix.fr/unix/linux/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html">From Powerup To Bash Prompt</A> thanks to Dominique van den Broeck. A Japanese by Yuji Senda is coming soon, if it's not at <A HREF="http://www.linux.or.jp/JF">Japanese Documentation and FAQ Project</A> already. <P> <P> <P> <P> <H2><A NAME="ss14.3">14.3 Feedback</A> </H2> <P>I would like to hear any comments, criticisms and suggestions for improvement that you have. Please send them to me <A HREF="mailto:gcokeefe@postoffice.utas.edu.au">Greg O'Keefe</A><P> <P> <H2><A NAME="acknowledge"></A> <A NAME="ss14.4">14.4 Acknowledgements</A> </H2> <P>Product names are trademarks of the respective holders, and are hereby considered properly acknowledged. <P> <P>There are some people I want to say thanks to, for helping to make this happen. <P> <P> <DL> <P> <DT><B>Michael Emery</B><DD><P>For reminding me about Unios. <DT><B>Tim Little</B><DD><P>For some good clues about <CODE>/etc/passwd</CODE> <DT><B>sPaKr on #linux in efnet</B><DD><P>Who sussed out that syslogd needs <CODE>/etc/services</CODE>, and introduced me to the phrase ``rolling your own'' to describe building a system from source code. <DT><B>Alex Aitkin</B><DD><P>For bringing Vico and his ``verum ipsum factum'' (understanding arises through making) to my attention. <DT><B>Dennis Scott</B><DD><P>For correcting my hexidecimal arithmetic. <DT><B>jdd</B><DD><P>For pointing out some typos. <DT><B>David Leadbeater</B><DD><P>For contributing some ``ramblings'' about the kernel deamons. <DT><B>Dominique van den Broeck </B><DD><P>For translating this doc into French. <DT><B>Matthieu Peeters </B><DD><P>For some good information about kernel deamons. <DT><B>John Fremlin</B><DD><P>For some good information about kernel deamons. <DT><B>Yuji Senda</B><DD><P>For the Japanese translation. <DT><B>Antonius de Rozari</B><DD><P>For contributing a GNU assembler version of UNIOS (see resources section on the home page) </DL> <P> <H2><A NAME="ss14.5">14.5 Change History</A> </H2> <H3>0.8 -> 0.9 (November 2000)</H3> <P> <UL> <LI>Incorporated some information from Matthieu Peeters and John Fremlin on kernel deamons and the <CODE>/proc</CODE> filesystem.</LI> </UL> <P> <H3>0.7 -> 0.8 (September 2000)</H3> <P> <UL> <LI> Removed instructions on how to build a system, placing them in a separate document. Adjusted a few links accordingly.</LI> <LI> Changed homepage from <A HREF="http://learning.taslug.org.au/power2bash">learning@TasLUG</A> to <A HREF="http://www.netspace.net.au/~gok/power2bash">my own webspace</A>.</LI> <LI> Completely failed to incorporate a lot of good material contributed by various people. Maybe next time :(</LI> </UL> <P> <H3>0.6 -> 0.7</H3> <P> <UL> <LI>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</LI> <LI>added some ramblings contributed by David Leadbeater</LI> <LI>fixed a couple of url's, added link to unios download at learning.taslug.org.au/resources</LI> <LI>tested and fixed url's</LI> <LI>generally rewrite, tidy up</LI> </UL> <P> <H3>0.5 -> 0.6</H3> <P> <UL> <LI>added change history</LI> <LI>added some todos</LI> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="ss14.6">14.6 TODO</A> </H2> <P> <UL> <LI>explain kernel modules, depmod, modprobe, insmod and all that (I'll have to find out first!)</LI> <LI>mention the /proc filesystem, potential for exercises here</LI> <LI>convert to docbook sgml</LI> <LI>add more exercises, perhaps a whole section on larger exercises, like creating a minimal system file by file from a distro install.</LI> <LI>add makefile hack to bash build instructions - see easter notes.</LI> </UL> <P> <HR> Next <A HREF="From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-13.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html#toc14">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>