Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2000 00:19:23 -0500 | From | Michael Meissner <> | Subject | Re: Universal debug macros. |
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On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 08:25:38PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011270302570.24716-100000@yle-server.ylenurme.sise> > By author: Elmer Joandi <elmer@ylenurme.ee> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Red Hat will ship two kernels. Well, they actually ship now about 4 ones > > or something. So they will ship 8. > > > > Something RedHat & co may want to consider doing is providing a basic > kernel and have, as part of the install procedure or later, an > automatic recompile and install kernel procedure. It could be > automated very easily, and on all but the very slowest of machines, it > really doesn't take that long.
(Note, I work in the GCC group, not the Linux group, so the following is MHO, and not Red Hat gospel).
Assuming you've installed the compiler/other relevant tools, installed the kernel source, and have enough disk space to build the kernel. This would screw people wanting to install Linux on their old 386/486/pentium for use as a firewall or web server. For example, the machine I'm planning on moving a web server to only has 2 gig of disk. Right now, I have barely enough space to hold the compiler tools plus web pages I want to serve. If I was serving much more content, I would probably chuck the compiler tools/kernel source.
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