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 :-) -- Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before the fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
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 :-)
-- Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before the fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
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cool beans, lemme dive in... 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 :-)
-- Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before the fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
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