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He said also because fedora seemed the most amenable to running custom kernels which is basically what he does all day.

• nurettin 11mo ago
  Which is weird, I've compiled and ran custom kernels and modules on debian before fedora 1.0 iso was announced on freenode/#fedora and it wasn't even good.
  • WD-42 11mo ago
    Ok have you considered things may have changed in the 40+ releases since then?
    • nurettin 11mo ago
      Yes, but I've been considering both operating systems to have changed for the better, not just fedora for some weird reason.
    • sph 11mo ago
      It still is an utter pain if you ever need to get close to the rpm system. Probably what he means is that a make install (or whatever the incantation, it’s been a while since I compiled a kernel) just works on Fedora and never has to deal with the rpm nonsense (I use Fedora too, but packaging is even more dreadful than deb, if you can believe it)
  • arendtio 11mo ago
    For Gentoo, it was/is? part of the standard installation to configure and build a custom kernel.
    • nurettin 11mo ago
      I remember the first gentoo. On the framebuffer it had a beautiful blue/gray background with the logo and provided you with choices. You could build everything from scratch or install a bootstrapped version. I tried both, failed and gave up (my poor AMD k5 couldn't handle the heat). But the point here is: it was always easy to build a kernel within your debian installation from deb-src. You could even build it as a deb, install it and reboot into it. If my job was to manage a linux kernel, I'd have a script which took the latest sources, set kernel parameters, packaged it as deb-src and then it is just two steps to build and reboot. Then I could switch between them easily.