I had to deal with an installer written in python and several in Java...
IMHO, Java would be a better language for this and you could build off some
nice OSS installers that already exist (such as IzPack). Just my 2 cents :)
On 1/30/06, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 22:04 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> >> BTW, gcc is not installed on by default AFAIR.
> >
> > Wow, how do you update the kernel each week? :)
> >
> > More seriously, I know under FreeBSD, one of the first things that gets
> > done after installing is to customize the kernel to get rid of all the
> > 'cruft' part of the generic kernel, I take it that this isn't something
> > that ppl do with Linux?
>
> On systems that have a packaging system, you are supposed to download
> and install vendor kernels. There is "no need" to build the kernel.
> However, if you want to build, then you need to install development
> environment.
>
> On my RHEL boxes, I do never ever recompile the kernel since Red Hat
> does not provide support if I do so :)
>
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