Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house

From	Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house
Followup-To	comp.os.linux.hardware
Date	2015-03-22 00:03 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Strider
Message-ID	<mektan$v3$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Saturday 21 March 2015 22:52, Baho Utot conveyed the following to 
comp.os.linux.hardware...

> On 03/21/15 14:04, Aragorn wrote:
>
>> It has been a long time ─ maybe ten years ─ since I've built a custom
>> kernel, but I have always managed to get it to booted and run without
>> an initd, and I've also never built a kernel that wouldn't boot.  I
>> did have one unstable kernel at one point, but that was because I was
>> using the upstream sources from kernel.org and that kernel had a very
>> serious bug in it, which was fixed with a patch the next day.  That
>> particular kernel was 2.6.8, and the fix ─ 2.6.8.1 ─ is what got the
>> "four numerals" versioning started, which lasted up until Linus
>> decided to bump the kernel version to 3.0.
>>
>> The first kernel I ever built was 2.6.5, and I was on a system that
>> still had been built with a 2.4.x kernel.  My custom kernel booted
>> straight up without a glitch and ran perfectly, and all without
>> needing an initrd.
> 
> Or skip all of that non sense and just use FreeBSD.
> Will boot even if /usr is on a separate filesystem, they keep
> everything needed to boot where it is and suppose to be. /bin /boot
> /etc nad /sbin. Hell they even have a /rescue so if you botch things
> up you can fix it. Building a custom kernel = piece of cake.

Well, as I said before, I have both technical and political objections 
against FreeBSD.  And nobody says you have to accept a distribution that 
uses systemd.  Gentoo supports systemd but still uses openrc as the 
default, and there is even a Gentoo-created fork of udev which does not 
play into the whole systemd thing.

Also, people who prefer GNOME ─ I'm not one of them, and I've never 
liked GNOME ─ cannot use FreeBSD anymore because GNOME (and specifically 
GDM) now requires that systemd be installed.  And systemd does not 
support anything other than a Linux-based system.

-- 
= Aragorn =

         http://www.linuxcounter.net - registrant #223157

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Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <dont@email.me> - 2015-03-21 08:24 +0000
  Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <dont@email.me> - 2015-03-21 16:21 +0000
  Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-21 19:04 +0100
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-03-21 22:48 +0100
      Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2015-04-20 09:11 +0000
        Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-04-20 14:49 +0200
          Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-04-22 00:40 +0200
            Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-04-22 05:38 -0400
              Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-04-22 05:39 -0400
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> - 2015-03-21 17:52 -0400
      Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-22 00:03 +0100
  Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-03-21 22:50 +0100
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-03-21 18:25 -0400
      Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-03-22 10:51 +0100
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2015-04-20 09:18 +0000
  Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-03-22 10:28 +0000
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2015-04-20 09:35 +0000
      Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-04-20 10:37 +0100
        Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-04-20 09:36 -0400
          Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-04-20 16:23 +0100
            Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-05-01 01:55 -0400
  Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2015-03-24 13:00 +0100
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <dont@email.me> - 2015-03-25 02:54 +0000

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