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On 03/21/15 15:54, ruben safir wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:20:34 -0400, Michael Black wrote:
>
>> So at this point, anyone wanting to compile a kernel is doing it for
>> some specific need, maybe the challenge, maybe they have some obscure
>> hardware,
>> maybe they are just interested in making it smaller.  But most people
>> can live with the bloated kernel that comes with any distribution.
>
> I have news for you.  It was no easier or harder back in the late
> nineties to load an OS than it is today.  And when you go to the shelf
> today and grab COTS hardware, it is HARDER, not easier to get it to work
> because so much of the system is now obsfucated from the user and the
> dependency of binary blobs has skyrocketed, and standards have been
> abandoned.
>
> If you don't want to learn to use your kernel, to compile it, to
> understand how it fits in with the rest of your system, it is no sweat
> off my brow.  Just don't get uppity when I want to actually learn how
> these things fit together, like a normal person who depends on these
> systems for real work would want to.
>
> As for the observation about grub2 and kernel compilation question,
> OBVIOUSLY the two are directly related which is why LILo was run from the
> make files at one time.
>
> grub and grub2 sucks.  It adds complications without reason and wastes
> time that can be better prent doing work.
>
> Ruben
>
>
>

Or just move to FreeBSD... the sane way to do things