I didn't say it was "hard", but the point of Ubuntu is a standard image. Yes, you can compile your own kernel on Ubuntu, but I doubt many people ever have.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Joey Espinosa <jlouis.espin...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Ubuntu you'll never compile your own kernel. It won't be optimized >> for your system. > > > I beg to differ here. Compiling your own kernel isn't hard, and can be > done on any distro. Before Xen and SMP support was built-in, it was > actually pretty common to compile your own kernel, even on Ubuntu. > -- > Joey "JoeLinux" Espinosa* > * > <http://joelinux117.blogspot.com> > <http://twitter.com/joelinux117><http://about.me/joelinux> > > > > 2011/11/14 Charles Cossé <cco...@gmail.com> > >> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Thomas Guettler <h...@tbz-pariv.de> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Am 13.11.2011 21:58, schrieb Charles Cossé: >>> > The main difference with Ubuntu is that it's a binary distribution >>> > (pre-compiled binaries for a standardized platform). I use Gentoo, >>> > personally, which is a variant of Debian with "portage" rather than >>> > "apt". LAMP server stuff is readily available on all distros of >>> Linux. >>> > If you're hardcore then use Gentoo. If you're medium-core then use >>> > Debian. If you're softcore then use Ubuntu. If you like RedHat style >>> > more than Debian, then go CentOS. >>> >>> If you are a hardcore, you write your own kernel and libc. >>> >>> On Ubuntu you'll never compile your own kernel. It won't be optimized >> for your system. It (Ubuntu) will also probably find 99% of your hardware >> and make it work off-the-bat. Gentoo was created by the developer of the >> apt system, Daniel Robbins ... not really a variant of Debian, but more of >> a rethink of Debian's package management system, "apt", called "portage" in >> Gentoo. >> >> >> >>> I would use ubuntu. >>> >>> thomas >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ >>> E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Django users" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> AsymptopiaSoftware|Software@theLimit >> http://www.asymptopia.org >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- AsymptopiaSoftware|Software@theLimit http://www.asymptopia.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
