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Message-ID: <20090321052840.GA16361@kroah.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:28:41 -0700 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Shilp Dixit <shilp.dixit@...il.com> Cc: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@...il.com>, jbottomley@...ell.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tech-board@...ts.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Tech-board] Project idea for the Google Summer of Code 2009 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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