[ale] SuSE 8.2, Building a kernel

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Aug 26 21:07:29 EDT 2003


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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