On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:41 PM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Only Linux systems run on embedded systems only. > > What do you mean by that ? Do you mean to to say all embedded > system run GNU/Linux. if so, not really true. But I didn't quite > understand that line. >
ok, I meant roughly that ... where is only-Linux + busybox used? >> >>> >>> 1. Contributing to one of the main-stream community is obviously the >>> best thing to do. But I am of the opinion that, if the community is >>> physically in-accessible one cannot go much farther. >> >> What is physical access to a community? >> Learn to interact through the Internet. > > I am not sure what he meant. But this is how I understood > it. Physical access means stuff like user group meets, bug squashing > meets some periodic conferences etc. These things really do build > momentum and attract more people, and I have seen how such things > help, first hand. Thanks > True, but I read the statement as "without such off-line interaction it is not possible to get started". Things like bug squashing/triaging meets, mentoring, classrooms and developer meets with focus are mostly done online for big projects like Fedora and other distributions. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
