From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758735AbZCUNEu (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:04:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755751AbZCUNEl (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:04:41 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:41095 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755580AbZCUNEk (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:04:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=O1kO72Ke7P93ELx2noIR7pPV7Gy9dqUkri3J2/OFTJRzsovvMZufbZAIshp9w542nq Oj1trtF2KFIl5RzHWVovt/FUwtAOhn2dc8AFSWap859tT+Tnuen4Ut9pVw+0Yc7Am2aI TWzIO2so7NG/3vbgCnoqTcMktOvpR3pSTDQgI= Message-ID: <49C4E5E1.6090602@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:04:33 +0100 From: Till Kamppeter User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Shilp Dixit , 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 References: <49C402A2.1040705@gmail.com> <20090320213128.GB12078@kroah.com> <20090321052840.GA16361@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20090321052840.GA16361@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Shilp, I fear that we probably do not have appropriate mentors at the Linux Foundation. Perhaps you should talk about your project on the #gsoc IRC channel on Freenode. There are usually mentors of many organizations and they help you to find the best-suited organization. Till Greg KH wrote: > 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 >