Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:26:18 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution) |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>: > Now to do everything you describe does not need her to configure a custom > kernel tree. Not one bit. You think apt or up2date build each user a custom > kernel tree ?
Is it OK in your world that Aunt Tillie is dependent on a distro maker? Is it OK that she never gets to have a kernel compiled for anything above the least-common-denominator chip?
Not that I'm running down distro makers. They do a valuable job, and in fact my approach relies on Aunt Tillie's machine starting life with an all-modular distro kernel.
But the point of this game is for Aunt Tillie to have more and better choices. Isn't that what we're supposed to be about? -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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