I have a dream [LWN.net]

I have a dream

Posted Jan 28, 2004 6:59 UTC (Wed) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688)
In reply to: I have a dream by ccyoung
Parent article: Michael Johnson leaves Red Hat, Fedora

> - RH packages are huge, i386, and optionless

I can't disagree with that.

> - re-compiling a kernel on RH:
> = no .config (use make oldkernel?)

Install the kernel-source RPM from Red Hat and then get their .configs from /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs.

> = make modules -> an enormous explosion

Don't use modules then.

> But moreover I dream about:
[snip]

Short of the beefed up xconfig and the compiling of the kernel and modules, Debian seems to come really close to that. I'm just venturing into Debian from Red Hat and it's really well thought out and maintained.

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