Re: [Sheflug] RedHat and Script Kiddies

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> The usual kernel rpm is just a bloated non-standard pile of headaches. I
> don't seem to recall ever attempting installing and compiling a RedHat
> kernel SRPM - I think at this point I decided to just go vanilla.

Never had a problem (well, actually had a couple of dodgy prepatch
kernels).

>  What is this "/usr/src/linux" madness that you mention? I've not really
> looked at the Debian disks I've got, and RedHat is really the only
> distro I've played with. About the only thing I've noticed is a
> pointless /usr/src/redhat directory, which seems to serve to particular
> purpose.

Just because you don't know what it is does not make it pointless.
It's where RPM stores source trees.

>  Red Hat seem to be famous for making stupid decisions over the years...

Ho hum.
Let's start a thread about Debian being about 6 months behind every other
distro shall we? Or maybe not.


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