Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:48:04 -0800 (PST) From: "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" <jamil@acroal.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971209184512.15011B-100000@acroal.com> In-Reply-To: <199712100124.TAA26461@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On this topic. I don't care for Linux (Too Unreliable), but theyv'e had a curses based configuration tool as part of the sources since v 2.0. It is kind of nice since it lets you choose what hardware support you want to compile in and even some port variables etc. > As for the config step, it could be worse, it could be Linux. :-) > Actually its been so long since I built a Linux kernel that I forgot how > it was done. Hasn't been long enough for me to forget that one *had* to > build a custom Linux kernel in order to get a functional mix of the > right device drivers for your system. Hopefully (for Linux) that has > changed by now.
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