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>1.2. The Goal of Pocket Linux</H1
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>The purpose of Pocket Linux is to support and encourage people who
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wish to explore Linux by building a GNU/Linux system from nothing but
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source code. Pocket Linux is not intended to be a full featured system,
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but rather to give the reader a taste of what is involved in building an
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operating system from source code. After completing the Pocket Linux
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system the reader should have enough knowledge to confidently build almost
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any project using only source code. Given this direction we can put a few
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constraints on the project.</P
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>The main focus should be learning. The project should not just
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describe how to do something, it should also describe why it should be
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done.</P
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>The required time commitment should be minimal and
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manageable.</P
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>The project should not require any investment in additional
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hardware or reconfiguration of existing hardware to set up a lab
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environment.</P
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>Readers should not need to know any programming languages in
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order to complete the project.</P
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>To remain true to the spirit of GNU/Linux, all software used in
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the project should be covered under the GNU/GPL or another, similarly
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liberal, open-source license.</P
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