On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:51:09PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:03:34PM -0400, Steaphan Greene wrote: > > > Yes, I know I could compile it on another machine and make a package, > > I'd just like to not have to. > > Why not? Let me clarify. It's not that I don't want to compile on another machine instead of the 586x2 - it's that I don't want to have to recompile the kernel myself at all. This machine is supposed to be a zero maintainence machine, and is the most stable machine (hardware wise) I've ever owned. I'd like to just leave it alone and just apt-get update it every so often. > > Is there a reason this kernel flavor is ignored (is it just because > > they are rare?)? > > Yes. Well, I suppose I'm a member of a small enough audience to be ignored. It would just be nice to see secure support for these older machines, since one of linux' advantages over the _other_ OSes is that you don't have to throw a computer away if it's more than 5 years old. What is it that makes this too difficult to include in the release? CD space? Mirror space? Maintainer time? If it's the last, perhaps I can help with that. -- Steaphan Greene <sgreene@cs.binghamton.edu> GPG public key: http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~sgreene/gpg.key.txt
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