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        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC 
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:55:34 -0700
From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
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>As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> After speaking with David on the phone, I decided to remove the
>> following entries from GENERIC:

>Only two arguments here:
>. GENERIC is known to run on many installed machines, and while you
>  are right that it is possible (and desirable) to compile your kernel
>  from scratch once you are installed, many people decide not to do
>  it, for various reasons.  (Among them, you have to sacrify 20 MB of
>  space for a kernel compilation, which is far too much for someone
>  with only a 100 MB disk.)

Maybe I have a bad attitude, but...  This is Unix.  If they can't or
don't want to build their own kernel, they should be running Windows
or OS/2.

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