Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 1 Jul 1996 17:40:58 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Khan M. Klatt" <> | Subject | Re: NT and stuff .... |
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On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:
Since we're brainstorming...
> [much stuff about NT deleted] > Hmm, what would be good (don't know if anyone's done it), would be a type > of fat binnary that diets the first time it's run to become the platform > dependant binnary. Well that might have limited appeal, but it would > appeal to the vender that's just wanting to ship boxes out, preloaded > with NT; ie you've got a HD image, and you just stick it on a SCSI HD, > stick it in the NT box (with customers choice of CPU), boot off a floppy, > install the boot loader, and soak test, no messing with an ALPHA HD > image, x86 image, MIPS image .... > Bryn
So who here who reads this list is a Linux end-user CD-ROM distributor? Have we heard from Linux distributors (caldera, Red Hat, Pat Volkjerding (excuse my spelling if I'm wrong!) about their needs for binary/installation conveniences?
Largely off topic,...
Could we/should we use RCS/SCCS type tools to enable end users to manage kernel sources? If you could pull out particular areas of the kernel sources to create a leaner meaner kernel, or put in particular parts of the kernel sources to create a bigger-feature-rich kernel (outside of the use of traditional modules) by applying a kernel "sub"-version, would it be more of an advantage than the trouble it would cause to implement it?
-Khan
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