OT: Linux flavors...

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>Is it just me, or did Bill Campbell say:
>> 
>> I've done that by rote for some kernel modules, but I'm totally out of
>> practice doing the whole ``make mrproper; make xconfig'' thing.
>
>What's -sad- is that I went my first three years not even knowing about
>`make oldconfig`.  I was making a LOT of work for myself that I needn't
>have when just patching.  But I found out about that by late '96.  :)
>
>Yeah, I know what you mean though.  I -have- built kernels recently, but
>after so long riding with rpm's, it feels rusty.  I hear ya.

I went through a period where I was modifying Caldera's SRPMS to create
custom RPMS tailored to some systems we were building including things like
win4lin support.  I learned much more than I really wanted to know about
kernel building while doing that.  I've also had to do some hacking on SCSI
drivers to get ADFs working on scanners, but that was quite a while ago.

Today, I just want it to work with minimal hassle.

Bill
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