From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Shilp Dixit <shilp.dixit@gmail.com>
Cc: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>,
jbottomley@novell.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tech-board@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Tech-board] Project idea for the Google Summer of Code 2009
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:28:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090321052840.GA16361@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1369cb90903202145n76cec291x29bb6b5477b52007@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-21 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-20 20:54 Project idea for the Google Summer of Code 2009 Till Kamppeter
2009-03-20 21:31 ` [Tech-board] " Greg KH
[not found] ` <c1369cb90903202145n76cec291x29bb6b5477b52007@mail.gmail.com>
2009-03-21 5:28 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-03-21 13:04 ` Till Kamppeter
2009-03-20 21:32 ` Greg KH
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