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Steve Herber posted <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511041314570.1239@×××××.com>, |
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excerpted below, on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:25:20 -0800: |
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> This is why I miss RedHat. I don't want to spend my time customizing |
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> a kernel then spending more time with trial and error getting just the |
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> kernel I need. RedHat has a system in place that installs a minimal |
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> kernal and then loads almost everything else as modules. Genkernel almost |
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> does what I want but it is always a struggle. The base system always |
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> loads all the different disk drivers and does not unload the unused ones. |
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> Is anyone working on a more RedHat like kernel/modules/runtime loading |
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> system? It would eliminate the problem the original poster had and save |
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> lots of time for the rest of us. |
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If you don't want to spend your time customizing, why in tarnation did you |
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choose /Gentoo/, of /all/ distributions? Customization is practically |
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Gentoo's middle name, the reason we spend all that time compiling from |
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source and etc. |
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Red Hat and their method of pigeonholing everybody into convenient |
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categories, the better to provide binaries for them... I think you'll find |
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very few Gentoo developers interested in going that route... or they'd not |
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be Gentoo developers, and would be spending their time on some other |
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distribution (Debian's the closest in spirit to Gentoo that does binaries |
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by default). |
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Not to be unwelcoming, but honestly, if you're missing that sort of |
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top-down other-people controlling your machine for you environment, than |
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Gentoo is very likely the wrong distribution for you! There are others |
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that provide that sort of thing far better than Gentoo, which is pretty |
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much the antitypical distribution, if that's what you are looking for. |
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OTOH... Gentoo users are system-admins, and that's what it expects them |
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to be -- ready to take responsibility and control over their own machines. |
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While it's certainly possible for someone to take pretty much the |
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genkernel defaults, and have an acceptable system, part of becoming a |
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mature Gentoo user (that is, a mature sysadmin on a system running Gentoo |
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Linux) is learning the ins and outs of kernel customization, to the degree |
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you want to customize it. If you are comfortable with it remaining as is, |
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that's fine, but the ability and tools are there to become familiar with |
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your system, and customize the kernel, as well as everything else, to the |
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degree of lean mean computing machine, you desire. |
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I sincerely hope you do not take this wrong, but your comment did hit a |
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nerve, as I'm sure you can tell, by now. =8^/ |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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