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   In comp.os.linux.development.system Mark Hobley  wrote:   
   | In comp.os.linux.development.system phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:   
   |> Now go back and read the original question.  I already know how to build a   
   |> monolithic kernel manually.  That wasn't what I asked.   
   |   
   | Hmmm, the orginal question I saw was:   
   |   
   | Does anyone know of a distribution that including building a custom   
   | monolithic kernel as part of its installation?   
   |   
   | The answer to this is "Yes". I gave Gentoo as the name of the distribution.   
      
   I would not even classify Gentoo as a distribution at all.  I don't know what   
   the best term would be.  I guess I could toss out "meta distribution" to be   
   close.  It's more of a framework to build a distribution.  And as such, it is   
   probably the best piece of work out there besides the kernel itself.   
      
   But it isn't what I'm looking for in this instance of looking.   
      
   I'm looking for an ordinary distribution that builds very little from source,   
   perhaps only the kernel itself.  A distribution specializing in those cases   
   where a statically linked kernel is appropriate (not everyone understands or   
   acknowledges such cases, so it may be the case many people exist such cases   
   to not even exist) would be the search target here.  Such a distribution would   
   HOPEFULLY not just shrug off the kernel configuration to the user doing the   
   installation, but instead, would provide some combination of intelligence to   
   the configuration, and an easy user interface for configuration (which might   
   be a lot easier if intelligent configuration initializes it).   
      
   Someone added in the group "alt.os.linux.gentoo".  Now I don't know who is   
   answering from that group, so I need to leave it on so people who have joined   
   this thread from there can get the response.  I will eventually slice it off   
   now that I see it has been added.  Whoever did that should not have done so.   
      
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