On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 21:02, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers > Go ahead everyone, and laugh at this question, but it should be asked, > even by a Jedi Knight. Since everyone needs to roll their own kernel > from provided sources at some point, during the installation of the > image, to production functions, it follows that since the source code is > available for everything, why not essentially make your distribution, > based on what is available?
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, and the scars. of course I *had* to use unstable, little tested, development versions of everything! What do you *think* happend when I uppgraded my C library with th 2.1.42 (or was it .43) kernel *without* reading the warning... (major vfs changes, very unstable) hahahaha... I kept it up for 2-3 years. If you do this it takes a lot of time, on the other hand you learn a lot. however, if you are actually going to do this for a "real production" system you should do "integration testing" which takes much more time. So I reccomend that you only make your own distribution if no available one fits your needs. Erik I haven't lost my mind - I've got it backed up on tape somewhere... --- unknown
