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[ale] SuSE 8.2, Building a kernel
- Subject: [ale] SuSE 8.2, Building a kernel
- From: jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)
- Date: 26 Aug 2003 21:07:29 -0400
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:42, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> As Mr. Kinney mentioned, make oldconfig will take you where you want to be,
> unless you really are interested in a lightweight kernel. A smaller kernel
> has little value on a reasonably modern system. It's guys like me who
> insist on clinging to old clunkers that benefit the most from it.
There's a reason they're called "Slackers" ! ;) It's the only distro
they can pare down light enough to run on old junk.
When I was in grad school, we used to build frankenstein boxes from
scavenged parts around the dumpsters behind the business school. Slack
was a requirement since that was all there was (except for Yddrasil
[sic] been too long)
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