STOP IT!!!!
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Pornin <pornin@bolet.ens.fr>
To: <leitner@convergence.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 12:00 PM
Subject: Why Linux is doomed (was: Re: FENRIS (nwfs) 1.4.2 Source Code
Available)
> According to <leitner@convergence.de>:
> > Management summary: stuff like this sucks. I am but a programmer with a
> > SMP box that likes to run the latest kernel. And yes, I expect all the
> > kernels to compile out of the box. I don't think that this is too much
> > to ask.
>
> Asking for the Moon is not too much also; see, I can do it: I want the
> Moon! But it is unlikely that I will be answered positively.
>
> However if you want an OS ask RedHat or Debian. The kernel is the engine
> of an OS, and if you want to play with the engine prepare yourself to
> get your hands dirty. Or let the professional (the integrator, Mr RedHat
> for instance) do the job. Have you ever looked at your car engine ? Do
> you expect General Motors to provide you every three weeks a free new
> engine that fits easily in your car, with a 5-minute installation ?
>
> Anyway I think many people will be grateful for your offering of
> compiling every version on every possible architecture so that
> out-of-the-box-compiling kernels may be released.
>
>
> > Nowadays, people do not compile their kernels anymore.
>
> And they are right. Users want to use their computer, not to build them.
>
>
> > I can practically see before my mental eyes a Microsoft sales weasel
> > showing people "make config" and then compiling a kernel where FAT
> > does not compile!
>
> Ok, now explain me what happened the last time you typed "make" in the
> Windows NT source tree.
>
> What ? You never did it ? Hey, maybe there is a clue there...
>
>
> > 4. When you do a change in the kernel, DOCUMENT IT.
>
> Thanks again for your selfless proposition of documentating the dark
> areas of the kernel.
>
>
> --Thomas Pornin
>
> By the way, I use Linux on an Alpha and I always found the "linux-kernel
> support" of much higher quality than what could be decently expected.
>
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