On Mon December 21 2009, Celejar wrote: > > Yes and no WRT flexibility. Yes because you an choose exactly what does > > and does not go into your kernel. No, because once it's built, if you > > want to add a new hardware device later, you might have to build a new > > kernel. With the modular prebuilt kernels, you can plug in just about > > anything and it'll likely be recognized. Then again, there's nothing > > keeping one from building his/her own kernel and including drivers in > > anticipation of future needs. The downside to this is kernel bloat for > > hardware you're not using "right now". I obviously agree that you have > > more control doing your own kernel. > > Agreed, and I get bitten by this all the time. Worse, often I disable > some feature that I actually need, and then spend much time and > aggravation figuring out why something is suddenly broken ... Well, I > guess that's part of the valuable learning process that we discussed > earlier :/
how do you know what to enable/disable? Do I need a full-list of all my existing hardware in front of me? how do you know what the dependencies are? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
