hi,
Sounds like you are thinking of making a distro. Very Interesting. We could
make a lot out of it particularly with end use specific distros.
Amol Gokhale
> Regarding the cybercafe thingy, what I think is this:
>
> 1. We figure out which packages would be required by a cafe. There
> shouldn't be too many.
>
> 2. What kernel options are required. This includes hardware support and
> networking options.
>
> 3. Are we going to have linux clients and server or just a linux server?
> If we have both, we will have to decide on separate configurations for
> each type.
>
> 4. Once we have decided all this, it should not be hard to build a really
> small distribution that contains only these options.
>
> We get the kernel sources and the required packages, and use simple shell
> scripts to compile and install them. gcc and a default kernel with only
> basic (hard-disk, CD-ROM, 386 etc.) support will be required to run the
> installation.
>
> I am not sure how we can go about probing hardware to detect which kernel
> modules need to be installed, but we can first try out hand configuring,
> and then figure out probing.
>
> What do you'll think?
>
> Philip
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