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   phil-news-nospam@ipal.net to J.O. Aho   
   Re: distribution for monolithic kernel   
   29 Jan 09 23:17:47   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.development.system   
      
   In comp.os.linux.development.system J.O. Aho  wrote:   
   | phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:   
   |> In comp.os.linux.development.system J.O. Aho  wrote:   
   |> | phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:   
   |> |   
   |> |> What does it take in Usenet to get people to either answer the question   
   that   
   |> |> was asked or to now answer at all, but in particular to not make   
   presumptions   
   |> |> and certainly not make up other questions?   
   |> |   
   |> | We could have said, "no there is not a such distribution", but we wanted   
   to   
   |> | educate you too to see why there is not a such distribution.   
   |>   
   |> How would "educating" me help him see why there is not such a distribution?   
   |   
   | By pointing out the difficulties and the drawbacks with the whole idea.   
   | Of course you are free to make a try to build a system that installs the   
   | perfect monolithic kernel, but it won't be as good as a solution as a   
   modular.   
      
   So far, all this "educating" seems to be presuming things.  They presume I am   
   trying to build a general purpose distribution for a general purpose computer   
   system.   
      
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