On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, John Summerfield wrote:

> Still there will be configuration choices that may impact how well the
> binaries fit in.

But that should not make a kernel built from the public "generic"
source tree not work on any given distro.   (As you say further on.)

> If Dingo Linux has ext3 built in instead of being built as a module,
> then its initialisation scripts and configuration files will not work
> with a Red Hat kernel for some users (those who use ext3 for starters)
> because ext3 will not be loaded.

Given the obvious requirement of bootstrapping,
you can make your init scripts smarter than that,  John.   ;-)   C'mon!

> However, a Dingo Linux user should expect to be able to build a kernel
> for Dingo-Linux  from the Red Hat source.

Yes!   Exactly.

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