Feeping creatures [was: Raid 0 to 5]

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> Chris == Chris Croome <chris [at] croome.net> writes:

Chris> On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 13:21:07 +0100 (BST), Richard
Chris> <r.ibbotson [at] zetnet.co.uk> wrote:

>> On 03-Sep-99 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>> I think this trend of the various distributions toward
>>> bloating kernels through feeping creaturitis is a bad idea....
>> Yes :-)

Chris> What's so cool with Linux is that you can roll-your-own
Chris> kernel and dump all the stuff you don't want that comes
Chris> with the binary kernels and compile your own :-)

You're preaching to the choir, here. :-)

_We_ all seem to realize that's what's cool about Linux; why can't
Red Hat and SuSE and even Debian figure that out? (At least Debian
provide the `kernel-package' package which allows you to make kernel
packages in a very simple and standard way, without dealing with all
the crap---dependencies and such---that a full-blown application
does.)

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