Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:08:25 -0700 (MST) | From | Chris Ricker <> | Subject | Re: Penelope builds a kernel |
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<What's up with all the bad biology on linux-kernel? First there was the never-ending "I don't know anything about evolution but I'll talk about how it applies to software development anyway" thread, and now this horrible mish-mash of half-correct terminology...>
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Penelope needs to build a kernel to support her exotic driver, but she > hasn't got more than the vaguest idea how to go about it. The > instructions with the driver source patch tell her to apply it at the > top level of a current Linux source tree and then just say "build the > kernel" before getting off into technicalia about the user-space > tools.
I've shared a lab bench with Penelope. If she's at a school where she can study proteomics and where she can get grant funding sufficient to buy a "MEMS card," then all she has to do is talk to her departmental computer support people. That's why they exist, and why distributions exist -- so that Penelope does not have to deal with this horribly contrived scenario.
later, chris
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