Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:22:39 +0900 | From | Bruce Harada <> | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution) |
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:39:25 -0500 Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org> wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2002 06:02 pm, Bruce Harada wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:34:23 -0500 > > > > Aunt Tillie just DOESN'T CARE, OK? She can talk to her vendor if she gets > > worried about whether her kernel supports the Flangelistic2000 SuperDoodad. > > I think what Eric's REALLY going for is converting some of the Minesweeper > Certified Solitaire Experts down at the corner store (and yes there are still > corner computer stores in mini-malls around the country) over to The Penguin.
Er... if Eric were REALLY going for that, why didn't he use it as an example? That might actually be a possible real-world situation, whereas all the ones I've seen so far are so far removed from reality as to be pointless.
Let me put it this way: Requiring Aunt Tillie to configure/compile her kernel is a *failure* on the part of the vendor. It doesn't matter whether Aunt Tillie is really Aunt Tillie or your local MSCE. They should not have to do it.
As for adding a driver that's not included in the vendor's kernel, do you mean that having a Microsoft-trained drone rebuild a kernel specifically for a certain PC (thus requiring further compilation for any hardware added later) and including a no-doubt beta driver and then giving it to Aunt Tillie without any testing beyond the MCSE's PC is a *good* idea?
(I've trimmed the cc line a bit, BTW.)
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