Jeremy Sanders wrote:
What rubbish. For instance, we customised an early Fedora to work on
a
diskless NFS rooted system, mainly by mucking around with init scripts.
Being able to easily edit these files made this project work and work
quickly. Trying to get upstream to special case our particular setup
wouldn't have happened.
You're suggesting hammering shut the insides of linux to stop people
playing around and reducing freedom - sounds like you want Fedora to be
like the products of other large propitiatory systems.
C code can be changed too, if really needed. But the point is that it should
not be necessary to edit code at all to get what's needed.
There is a clear case for having an open and completely configurable
system. It's not going to cost 1 sec of bootup either.
I'm not so sure there. The overhead adds up.
Kevin Kofler