On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Vipul Jain <vipulsj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
www.linuxfromscratch.org2009/6/18 Rafael Gómez Alcalá <rgomezalcala@xxxxxxxxx>Hi Vipul:
The linux kernel is the central part of an operating system. It is a computer program with several functions: communications between different services, manages memory and resources, etc. It is only about 1Mb, more or less.
A linux distribution is the complete range of computer programs, desktop (KDE, Gnome, XFCE), openoffice, and the rest of open source software, using the linux kernel. You can think that a linux distribution is an ice with different flavours, but an ice ...
For instance, you can see a list of several distributions at http://distrowatch.com .
The linux kernel itself is available at http://www.kernel.org
In your second question, I assume you want to compile the linux kernel, isn't it? In that case, I recommend you to start with some reading:Thanks Rafael, I would like to compile memtest code as part of main linux kernel compile and would like to copy
the compiled memtest.bin into /boot when make install is called is it possible?
Also, Just out of curiosity I was wondering if there is any website or document that explains how to release your know
linux distro?
Regards,
Vipul.
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Sumit Sati
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