Re: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'?

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 21:46:54 -0600


Michael Loftis writes:

> And even if you 'clean out' stuff manually you'll probably not
> have enough space to compile it and you run the risk of messing
> up the kernel...

If you just want to build a kernel for a system like this,
I see two alternate answers:

(1) Get the source on a cd-rom and build from the cd-rom.
This will take about 10-15 megabytes on the hard disk,
and it needs the Dancing Makefiles.

(2) If someone sets up a web-based kernel build service,
this would be a practical use of it, in addition to the
sheer hack value.

Both of these are more general purpose and cooler than messing
with the One True Tarball.

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"

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