Re: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'?

Marek Habersack (grendel@jester.vip.net.pl)
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 02:31:07 +0100 (EET)


On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Alan Olsen wrote:

> On Jan 29, 11:05pm, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > Subject: Re: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'?
> > According to Michael Loftis:
> > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda1 382M 315M 48M 87% /
> > >
> > > As you can see there's no way Linux could be compiled. This system will be
> > > effectively stuck at 2.0.35 forever.
> >
> > There's no reason you can't compile machine A's kernel on machine B.
>
> Unless machine B is worse...
Why? You can compile PII code on an i386, you just can't run it there...

regards.
marek

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