[Tfug] linux no longer for amateurs

[Bexley Hall]

> > 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.
> 
> On 15 Jan 2010, Bexley Hall replied:
> > Care to pontificate on *why* "the linux way" is "better"?
> 
> Ummm, I think your showing your bias to argue against Linux every 
> chance you get.

Not at all.  I have no idea how Linux's way of "doing things"
differs from the way the *BSD's handle things.

> I am pretty sure he meant that when working with 
> a Linux system, it is probably best to use the distro kernels and 
> not compile your own, precisely because the issue that Erich is 
> running into.

Why the comment re separate user land, etc.?  Is Zack arguing
that this approach makes things *better* or *worse*?

What makes building a new kernel so problematic?  Why would it
have anything to do with userland?

--don