Re: why modules?

1996-12-08 Thread Paul Christenson
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > I'm not surprised that you are wondering why modules are useful. Most > of the reason of that is that the Linux distributions have not caught > up with what they can do. That's including Debian. I do see their uses. However, ther

why modules?

1996-12-08 Thread Bruce Perens
I'm not surprised that you are wondering why modules are useful. Most of the reason of that is that the Linux distributions have not caught up with what they can do. That's including Debian. It's now possible to build a kernel with little more than the ramdisk and console d