Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:53:10 +0000 | From | robbie@scot-mur ... | Subject | Re: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'? |
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On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 08:47:29PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Perhaps I need to re-iterate the problem... > > I'm not concerned about speed issues nor other issues... Simple the huge > footprint the kernel has. Many people (like myself) run Linux on small > systems where popping open a 40MB tarball would overfill the disks. And > even if you 'clean out' stuff manually you'll probably not have enough > space to compile it and you run the risk of messing up the kernel... But why compile a kernel on that machine? A compiled 2.2 kernel is not very big at all. You can download binary packages for populer distributions, or someone could probably compile a custom kernel for you.
> > Below is df -h from my largest system running x86 Linux here > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/hda1 382M 315M 48M 87% / > > As you can see there's no way Linux could be compiled. This system will be > effectively stuck at 2.0.35 forever. My mailserver is running 2.1.125, no problem. It is a 486 dx2/66 with 270 mb disk. It is also a print server, dialup server. > > Below is a direct cut-n-paste from a response I wrote:: > > I'm not saying necesarily (sp? I'm a programmer not an english major) that > the main distro needs to be ripped up in this manner, but that maybe some > sort of collective effort at establishing a de-facto mode-of-operations > where drivers include some sort of standard-ish INFO file that could be > used for an automated system. I don't have the resources to host anything > but I'd be willing to give a go of it if someone is willing to give it a > host and if people are willing to try it. Maybe we could have a sepperate tar ball with the configuration stuff in it. Then you could make a .config file and send it to someone for compiling. It could even be made automatic. You send your .config to an email address, and it mails you the kernel.
> > - -- > Michael Loftis > > Normally I'd put something of great profoundness in here, but for now I am > lacking profundity. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use <http://www.pgpi.com> > > iQA/AwUBNrKA0av+wuhQJ9hxEQKWoACg2HezSvCzu8MWUmv+DCQiO9I8KcUAoJIl > ecIX0En9AfWpWeGM8junWYeQ > =vxzz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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