SPO600 Code Building Lab
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Purpose of this Lab
In this lab, you will do a baseline build of a software package and benchmark its performance.
In this lab, you will do a baseline build of a software package and benchmark its performance.
Lab 2
Prerequisites
You must have working accounts on a Linux server (such as Matrix, Zenit, the SPO600 Servers or your own system).
Tasks
- Select a software package from the [Free Software Foundation's GNU Project].
- Build the software. Do NOT build the software as the root user. Do NOT install the software into the system directories.
- Test that it works.
- Select a second, open source software package that has a different license, and repeat the process with that software.
- Blog about the process, your results, your observations, and what you learned.