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SE: Why is this defense against “It's a Unix system ” not widely implemented?
- kick 7y agoOne line in the top reply in particular stuck out to me, because the person doesn't seem to know what they're talking about, and it highlights how low-quality Stack Exchange has become over time. (ever built the linux kernel from source? I have; it's a chore.) This demonstrates a complete lack of experience, and seems to be a lie. Even low-powered, ancient, phone ARM CPUs can compile the kernel in under two hours: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7381w3/linux_compiling_times_on_arm_cpus/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7381w3/linux_compili... Some recent (though as far as I'm aware, not the most recent, which can probably do it faster) AMD CPUs can do it in 16 seconds: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-16-Seconds-AMD-EPYC-2P https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-16... And if you look in the replies of that comment, you'll see the author comparing installing node.js on CentOS to compiling the kernel. I'd like to see some genuine conversation on this, but Stack Exchange fails to deliver.
- Arnt 7y agoWell, yes, but you also need to include vendor x's driver and patches for that thing you have on your embedded system, and you have to consider whether you want each of the eleventy thousand configuration options. I'm not complaining. IMO it's much easier to build the kernel than to fix whatever bug I'll fix next, and I say that without knowing what that next bug is. Just explaining why it's harder to build the kernel than to add some third-party blah via one or a few lines of Gradle, which may be his basis for comparison.