[Tfug] linux no longer for amateurs

[Bexley Hall]

Hi Zack,

> Back in the 1.3/2.0 kernel days I compiled my own kernels and had
> fairly mixed results.  I was running pretty bleeding edge hardware
> then (dual 200Mhz pentium pros), and probably 1 in 5 kernel revisions
> didn't work quite right for me.
> 
> Since then, I haven't deviated from distro releases. There's a reason
> that we have them, and not just a kernel with separate userland - none
> of the BSD's or any other commerical unixes do it the linux way.

Care to pontificate on *why* "the linux way" is "better"?

--don