[pocket-linux] Re: A few changes

[David Horton]

Dave Henderson wrote:
> Dave,
>  
>      One thing I would like to ask is that you include ALL the files 
> associated with the project (kernel config's, coreutils 5.0, etc) for 
> download.  This will help out people who wish to make small mod's to the 
> project.
>  
> Dave Henderson
> 

I'm working on trying to make it clearer where to find coreutils (which 
was fileutils, sh-utils & textutils.)  I just tried searching on Ibiblio 
and the results were pretty bad.  So I am going to try rewriting it 
suggesting that people check the manpages for cat, ls and so forth to 
find out the name of the packages and the fact that they come from GNU. 
  Then I'll put in a URL for GNU's FTP site.  Then I'll introduce 
Ibliblio and Sourceforge in the next chapter.

I'm kind of shooting for a way to show people how to dig up the stuff on 
the 'net rather than just coming to one site where it's all 
pre-packaged.  To quote an old cliche, "give a man a fish and he can eat 
for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime." 
Updating it for the situation at hand, "give a man a source code package 
and he can compile one version of one package, but teach a man to find 
source code on the 'net and he can build a bad-ass GNU-Linux system 
limited only by his imagination,"  ...or something like that.

Dave