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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Stabilizing Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.132232.22899@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 13:22:32 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.203828.11554@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug12.173012.17552@colorado.edu> <1992Aug13.133313.15221@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug13.195406.23296@colorado.edu>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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- In article <1992Aug13.195406.23296@colorado.edu>, drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
- | In article <1992Aug13.133313.15221@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- | >In article <1992Aug12.173012.17552@colorado.edu>, drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
- | >
- | >And the person trying to install on a new machine can't rebuild the
- | >kernel, so s/he needs another working system to get going. Bleh.
- | >Relocation at load time might take 1-2 sec of cpu. Big deal. Without
- | >loadable device drivers you must have a working system to generate a new
- | >kernel.
- |
- | Most Unices distribute the distribution kernel as a generic kernel,
- | ie one with support for all device drivers compiled in. It gets a little
- | bloated, but if you can boot it, you can run anything.
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- Sounds to me like you think the Linux kernel as distributed contains
- all the devices anyone would ever want to use, so there's no need for
- being able to support new devices.
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- It also sounds like you're trying to say that you think it's too
- hard, and you personally don't need it, so you want to convince
- everyone it's a bad idea.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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