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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0201031150090.2600-100000@marvin.loppu.net> By author: Henrik Hovi <henrik.hovi@loppu.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > These days hardware is cheap. BUT most of the people using their computer > as a typewriter and a means to easily do the important things with the > bank are NOT ready to upgrade to a new state-of-art Itanium 2GHz byte > crusher with a nice GeForce 5 accelerator and an integrated coffee cooker > (okay, they would like that one) even though they were cheaper than a > pair socks. The world doesn't work that way. They don't need such > monsters and that's it. > They also, usually, don't need to build customized kernels. In fact, I would argue that for *those* people, anything that gets in the way of dynamic autodetection (plop a new card in your machine, or connect a new thing to your USB/PCMCIA/FireWire/ADB/SCSI bus, and the machine should work on the next boot *without* having to go though a recompilation process) is a major mistake. -hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <amsp@zytor.com> - 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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