[Tfug] Just starting - need help

[Joe Blais]

I need help!

I'm new to Linux (about 2 weeks) and I NEED to learn how to compile a
kernel, (start by compiling the compiler even!), Draw a button on the
screen, get a mouse event and finally, make an install image.  We are
building a chemistry instrument, and just starting out in Linux, and
I need to do the controls for the thing.

I think I can figure the stuff out eventually, but we are working on a new
project that we want running by December - of this year - and as I'm
getting older, learning this is getting slower!

We got a pc/104 card - Intel x86 type of thing - from Octagon.  We were
supplied the source to the kernel, a bootable CD, and that's about it.
They don't help with software other than, just go - "find it on the web"....

Do you know of anyone who knows about this type of stuff, who would be a
consultant ($) that could get me through the first (and probably some
more) hurdles?

Thanks

Joe

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