On Monday, 24 בJanuary 2011 22:11:49 Eli Billauer wrote: > ... It was easy enough to do for real. And I had this feeling > that the system was meant to be hacked. It belonged to me. And that's > fading away, most likely because nobody really seems to care about this. > Linux is becoming a piece of opaque spaghetti, but it's OK as long as > yum this or apt-get that trades one bug for another. Spaghetti is not > free software. Not in any sense.
1. You should not be too worried about "the lost art" of kernel compilation from sources. Yes, only a tiny fraction of Linux users today compile their kernel (gcc, whatever)., but comparing fractions is a mistake. The *number* of people doing these compiles today in comparison with, say, 15 years ago is many-fold. It's simply that we now have many more people who are *only users* and should take their needs in account *as well* -- It doesn't mean we have less *developers* or that "very few" can do this the "old way" 2. The system in general *is* more complex today than 15 years ago. But attributing this purely to developers "surrendering" fashion is ignoring the real changes that affected Linux during this time: a lot more architectures, more cpus (numa), dynamic peripherals (scsi, usb, hot-plug pci, etc), hot-plugable cpus and ram (balloning) virtualization, embedded systems. And please note I only mentioned hardware related changes, ignoring functional changes (e.g: desktop integration) So not only you can compile your own stuff today, many of us do this pretty routinely (you cannot evade it completely in embdeded space yet). However, if you want to compile key parts of a modern *desktop* you'll simply have to work harder. BTW: the apt-get/yum mentioned before in this thread would also help you compile on your own because they can both bring you the build dependencies (and document them for you) and also contain the steps required for the build (which you can compare with your manual process if you have problems). Don't worry ;-) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw
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