In article <XFMail.20000410163837.aivanov@eu.level3.net>,
Anton Ivanov <aivanov@eu.level3.net> wrote:
>If we ho further down that line alpha is not a completely uniform architecture
>either, there is also all the m68k bunch and so on.
>
>Overall,
> I think that distributing linux with no compilers, no kernel config and
>incomplete includes should not be allowed by the licence. They can be removed
>by the user but should be installed by default and in all preloads by the
>distributor.
There are a lot of target environments that simply have no room to install
anywhere near enough stuff to rebuild a kernel. Think in terms of a CD that
installs a small version of Linux onto a 486DX66 with 16MB of RAM and 8MB
of FLASH disk to install onto.
It *might* have a floppy drive as well. I suppose we could use that for swap
... :-)
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