On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Laban Mwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:

I started with LFS ~ 10 years ago. It taught me a lot about Linux. GCC
compilation is interesting:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9429491/how-are-gcc-g-bootstrapped

As you wait for your builds, I'd suggest you start with a couple of
very good technical blogs; go through them and understand the
published content:
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/category/software-illustrated
http://igoro.com/
http://coderweekly.com/

Once you are good with that and want a test, apply to AWS. We are
growing at a furious rate and are hiring engineers and coders
everywhere. If you are good enough, you'll be relocated anywhere. The
interviews tend to be very technical. How technical? If I asked you
about booting a unix OS, I'd want to hear about real mode, protected
mode, 1MB limit, BIOS reserved memory locations, CPU instruction jump
to a known location, virtual memory initialization, NUMA, how SMP cpus
are initialized.....

Have a look at the jobs listed below and send me your resume.
http://aws.amazon.com/careers/
http://www.amazon.co.za/

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Mula G Njira <g2mula@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am currently in need of a project to unnumb my head after this umm...
> elections thingy :-) and have decided to finally try my hand at installing
> Linux from source (after putting it off for like 5 years now...), so dear
> skunks, (as a first step before I put my google-fu to the test) I would
> really appreciate some pointers from anyone who has any experience on
> this... gotchas, the works... LFS is probably the place to start but real
> life experiences are highly appreciated :-)
>
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> at winning do not become afraid.
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