From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753871AbZCUFaY (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:30:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751817AbZCUFaI (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:30:08 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:57732 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751572AbZCUFaH (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:30:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:28:41 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Shilp Dixit Cc: Till Kamppeter , jbottomley@novell.com, Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tech-board@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Tech-board] Project idea for the Google Summer of Code 2009 Message-ID: <20090321052840.GA16361@kroah.com> References: <49C402A2.1040705@gmail.com> <20090320213128.GB12078@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:15:48AM +0530, Shilp Dixit wrote: > Hi > > Ya i agree the concept might be pretty similar to the open suse built > packages but aren't most of these services either online or not very > flexible...What I was suggesting is to make a tool that is available on > every linux OS as an update or something...They give the user more > personalisation power and also allows non-tech users to create their own > live CD's or USB devices... The front end(GUI) will provide 'drag and drop' > facility for the different packages and will make life much easier in terms > of making individual flavours... Ok, that's fair enough, but I fail to see how this relates to the kernel itself. It looks like it's just a tool to package things up in some way, no kernel changes would be needed, right? thanks, greg k-h