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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> Now to do everything you describe does not need her to configure a custom
> kernel tree. Not one bit. You think apt or up2date build each user a custom
> kernel tree ?

Is it OK in your world that Aunt Tillie is dependent on a distro maker?  Is
it OK that she never gets to have a kernel compiled for anything above the
least-common-denominator chip?  

Not that I'm running down distro makers.  They do a valuable job, and in fact
my approach relies on Aunt Tillie's machine starting life with an all-modular
distro kernel.

But the point of this game is for Aunt Tillie to have more and better
choices.  Isn't that what we're supposed to be about?
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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