Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:23:53 +0200 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: The Joy of Forking |
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote:
> 2.4.5 is 26 meg now. It's time to consider forking the kernel. Alan has > already stuck his tippy-toe is that pool, and his toe is fine.
> For a client-use Linux kernel, I suggest, and will be and have been > persuing, features and non-features such as... > > forget POSIX
[junk]
> In short, an open source OS for end-users should be very serious about > simplicity, and not just pay lip-service to it. There is evidence of the > value of this in the marketplace. What doesn't exist is an OS where > simplicity is systemic. This is why end-user issues pertain to the kernel > at all. This is how open source should be. Simple, or at least clear, > through and through. Linux has lost a lot of simplicity since I got into > it in '96, and that is a loss.
Don't feed the trolls. The underlying kernel is nothing compared to an entire system. End-users don't mock with kernels but install their vendor's RPM, plus compiled Linux kernels are usually so much smaller on my machines than FreeBSD kernels. So just ignore this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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