[luau] Limbo 2 Gone from Mirrors
MonMotha
monmotha at indy.rr.com
Wed Aug 21 11:05:01 PDT 2002
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
...
>
> Almost every Linux guru I know has his/her own custom system. All my
> clients who have anything to do with Linux always customize their own Linux
> kernel. Is this an unspoken sina quo non or what? :-)
>
> Compiling and installing a new kernel is not the main problem. The
> difficult part
> is, essentially every major distro has its customized kernel. And if
> their patches are not incorporated by Marcelo, the 18-year Brazilian
> wonder kid who is now in charge of the stable kernel, then there may
> be some unknown consequences.
>
The distributions try to not make their userspace dependent upon these
patches, or at least make it so that the userspace components will
gracefully handle the non-presence of them. They know that Linux
systems are customizable, and to make it impossible or overly difficult
to drop in a custom kernel would alienate a large portion of their userbase.
--MonMotha
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