On Monday 24 July 2006 00:11 Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <4iiauuF3pdhcU2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, B Gruff wrote:
>> On Sunday 23 July 2006 22:46 Tim Smith wrote:
>>> Any benchmarks on these? I'm curious how long a kernel build takes.
>>> (Recall that being able to modify the OS was one of the criteria they
>>> had for this, so presumably people will be rebuilding kernels on them).;
>>
>> I'm not contradicting, just asking - was "on them" actually a criterion,
>> or was it "for them"?
>
> Hmmm...I guess it's not totally clear. They wanted an OS that could be
> tinkered with, which I took to mean tinkered with by the kids that they
> give these to, which would mean building on them would be a requirement,
> but it is possible that they just meant tinkered with by the people giving
> out the laptops, in which case they could do cross builds.
Yep - I just wondered - maybe part of this "freedom thing" the commies keep
talking about?.....:-)
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