Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2002-01-14T20:51:14Z

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:38:24PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> If a distro vendor could get away with exactly one kernel config, they
> would. Even if it made for a 20MB kernel image, the support tradeoff
> is a win.

Looks like Debian's look-mama-I-can-beat-godzila-hands-down 2.4 kernel
packages with everything AND the kitchen sink... :) They eat about 20Mb of
diskspace, I think.

Package: kernel-image-2.4.16-k7
Installed-Size: 22976

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where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh