Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:52:14 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution) |
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Marco Colombo wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2002, Thomas Duffy wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 04:29, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > > > > > - Building from source is good karma.
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> > Every distro supplies a package with the source used to build their own > kernel. Just recomplile it.
Really??? Have you ever tried this? RedHat provides a directory of random patches that won't patch regardless of the order in which you attempt patches (based upon date-stamps on patches or date-stamps on files). It's like somebody just copied in some junk, thinking nobody would ever bother.
Some distributions don't even provide source. They provide copies of /usr/src/linux/include/asm and /usr/src/linux/include/linux but nothing else. You have to "find" source on the internet.
Some distributions don't even provide that, instead they provide copies of /usr/src/linux/include/linux and /usr/src/linux/include/asm under /usr/include.
The "good-ol-days" where you could get 72 floppies from Yggdrasil, install Linux, and spend the next 48 hours watching it compile are long gone.
I have never found a distribution that uses modules, in which is was even remotely possible to duplicate the kernel supplied.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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