Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:53:46AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Shawn Yarbrough wrote:
>
> > Use the 'kernel-source' packages and you will get extra features and
> > bugfixes patched in by Debian which are not in stock Linux. For example
> > 'kernel-source-2.2.18pre21'. When installed the archive gets put into
>
> Is this anything like RedHat's customized kernels? My experience with
> those was that the headers were broken in a subtle but deep way,
> so that third-party kernel module source, for example, would not
> compile.
>
No.
> If these Debian patches are so great, why aren't they in the official
> kernel source?
>
Because the patches didn't exist when 2.2 was released. That is the
nature of a patch. For the most part patches are created to fix
bugs that were unknown when the original was released.
> There's too many Unixes as it is, why have more than one Linux?
>
Unix/Linux is a tool. Do you use only one tool when fixing a car? No, you
use the right tool for the right job.
kent
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