I thank all of you who have given me advice on this. According to the event organizers, 280 people came to the event held in central Osaka on January 26. 14 attended my lecture on LFS and 12 responded to my questionnaire.
Here is a summary of the replies I got: ----- 1. Why are you interested in LFS? (multiple choice) (1) To learn about the internals of the operating system :12 (2) Necessary for work :0 (3) Want a flexible system :1 (4) Want a fast system :2 (5) To learn about package build conventions (configure, make) :1 (6) Other (please describe in detail) :0 2. What operating system / distribution do you regularly use for development? ... 3. Are you familiar with "make"? (1) Know little or nothing about it :5 (2) Use for project build, using makefile provided by the project leader :3 (3) Have written my own makefiles :4 (4) Can handle advanced features (nested makefiles, conditionals, etc.) :0 4. Are you familiar with the following sequence? ./configure make (make check) make install (1) Never done it :1 (2) Done it once or twice :6 (3) Done it many times :0 (4) Have tweaked configure options :2 (5) Have modified the makefile :2 (6) Both (4) and (5) :1 5. Have you ever compiled the Linux kernel by yourself? (1) Never tried it :9 (2) Attempted without success :2 (3) Succeeded once or twice :1 (4) Succeeded many times; confident :0 6. Much documentation necessary for package build is in English only. Is the lack of Japanese documentations a problem? (1) Can't build packages because of this :4 (2) Sometimes a problem :4 (3) Seldom a problem :1 (*) No answer :2 7. Did you know that the project management method widely used in industry originated in Bell Labs? (1) Did know :2 (2) Learned that in a previous lecture by the same speaker :2 (3) Did not know :8 8. Do you plan to try building Linux From Scratch? (1) Would like to try :7 (2) Would like to try after some more study :5 (3) Never in a lifetime :0 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
