On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 03:35 PM, James Gregory wrote:
Debian's great and all, but let's not belittle the achievements of other
linux vendors (and more importantly spread misinformation). 'make rpm'
was around before 'make-kpkg'.
seconded - last thing i want to do is start another distro/flame war. :)
what i'm trying to work out at the moment is why i needed to build a custom kernel anyway, it was suggested that i ought to by the guy who initially got me on to all this, but i can't remember why, exactly.
think i'll start just by upgrading it to the standard 2.4, see how that goes. this box is a non-X web/mail server, i don't think it needs anything special at the kernel level. my friend might have been being a little over-enthusiastically-geeky. :-)
..S.
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