Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!kaiwan.kaiwan.com!pell.com!pell.com!there.is.no.cabal
From: orc@pell.com (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 7 Sep 1995 15:33:49 -0700
Organization: We're here, we're queer, we're going to drink some beer
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <42ns0d$qj3@pell.com>
References: <4233kp$t8p@hilly.apci.net> <42c18e$eg7@klaava.helsinki.fi> <42dp79$bv5@wolfe.wimsey.com> <42gnkt$9ji@klaava.helsinki.fi>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pell.com
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1010 comp.os.linux.advocacy:20515
In article <42gnkt$9ji@klaava.helsinki.fi>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI> wrote:
>In article <42dp79$bv5@wolfe.wimsey.com>,
>Curt Sampson <curt@cynic.portal.ca> wrote:
>>Or in other words, can I cross compile from a platform where I also
>>compile native systems for that platform?
>
>This is getting ridiculous. In a word (or three): "Who really cares?"
Well, I do. I maintain kernels for three different machines on
my server, and if it wasn't for the pBs configuration patches, I'd
have long since been driven to screaming diatribes about the standard
configuration scheme. I *hate* the standard configuration arrangement,
because it exchanges the utility of a berkeley-style configurator for
the dubious benefit of an interactive config while tossing out any
change of keeping multiple configs.
It may not be a major issue, since I've now upgraded my server
to a 486/100 and compiles now only take about 15 minutes, but it's
*really* annoying.
____
david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.com
\/