Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 May 2001 14:54:55 -0700 | From | Ben Ford <> | Subject | Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up |
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Alan Cox wrote:
>>Second, how many kernels does Redhat ship in order to have one for >>386/486/586/k6/Athlon . . . . >>Quite a pain in the ass. And look at how much shit has to be built in >>in order to get a kernel that works for everybody! People bitch at >>Microsoft for doing it, then turn around and do the same thing. >> > >No people bitch at microsoft for precisely the opposite - not including a >way to build fully optimised setups for each cpu type - not including all the >stuff that is needed (try a generic win2k install on a vaio one day) > >I think you have your facts backwards > >Alan >
No, my point was, if I don't have SCSI or RAID on this box, I don't want them to be built into the kernel!
In other words, "stuff I don't need, just like Microsoft".
-b
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