3 Jan
1998
3 Jan
'98
10:45 a.m.
PG Manney wrote:
I note that you *N*X users mention recompiling the kernel. Is that
something peculiar to the UNIX/LINUX world? Is it done by the average user?
I presume (from "context clues", as my fourth grade son's homework puts
it)
that it provides a smaller/faster/more crashproof installation.
I've always run CP/M and Bill's M$-DO$ and have no experience with UNIX.
Should I -- I fix boxen and run online and graphics apps; I don't program
much anymore -- play with UNIX? What would I get out of it?
The main reason Linux users like to customize and recompile the kernel
is the same reason dogs lick their balls: because we _can_. Nobody
outside of Redmond ever sees Micro$oft source code. And a source
license for "real" Unix is priced far beyond the means of mortal men.
It'll be nice when Caldera follows up on their promise to release the
source code for CP/M and DR-DOS (now OpenDOS). _That_ will definitely
have some results on-topic for this mailing list.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.