Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution) | From | Thomas Duffy <> | Date | 15 Jan 2002 09:04:16 -0800 |
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On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 04:29, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> - Building from source is good karma. > > You might think these are trifles and < 1% cases. My intuition > tells me that they add up in the long run. At least it's worth > considering.
- Someday, a stupid government or court decides that there is a strict separation between source and binary. Source is protected speech, but binaries are not. Linux decides it wants a really fast DVD decryption in the kernel, so it adds it in drivers. But now, distro's cannot compile and distribute a binary kernel package and the end user will need to compile the source code in order to watch their DVD.
Why is it unrealistic for everybody to compile their kernel when they do an install? If it is rather automated, then it just becomes another step on the progress bar.
-tduffy
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