Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Mar 1996 01:18:52 +0000 (GMT) | From | Mark Cooke <> | Subject | Re: Dropping Kernel Size |
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On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, Speed Racer wrote: > > 4 Mb or 6 Mb, who cares. > > Saving 2 or so megabytes on disk is totally ridiculous comparing to > > total confusion of having various distributions. <snip> > things are confusing already. i don't think we could get too much more > confused. and i say again, we don't all have t1's to download a 5 MB > kernel in just a minute or two...
Patches tend to be under 500K a pop. The automatic patch script makes using them a doddle. Anyone sucking each new 4Mb source tree off the net is just wasting bandwidth, IMHO. The arguement about actual size is a moot point. The arguement for reducing the clutter of obsolete drivers has some merit. However, having everything in one place is very useful and for the sake of a few extra minutes online grabbing the latest source/patches it's well worth it.
We should note that Joe Average commercial user using Linux is going to use a distribution anyway, and that once it works, its not something that would be changed to often.
Btw, a small wrapper that I have in /usr/src that I run after grabbing the latest patches into my local ftp archive saves on those keystrokes when using patches.
#!/bin/sh ./linux/scripts/patch-kernel /usr/src/linux /ftp/pub/linux/v1.3
Mark
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