Don't need kernel source, but do need instructions and config files

[Keith Lofstrom]

The 45MB+ consumed by the Kernel sources on the CD may indeed be less
important than Yet Another Text Editor to the distro commissars.  It's
their party, they get to choose. 

But it would be really handy if, somewhere on the install disks, there
were tools and instructions and configs to rebuild the distributed
kernels, exactly like the binaries and libraries on the FC3 distro,
so the great unwashed masses can check to see that the binaries as
distributed are clean and uncorrupted.  

A person would have to be insane to run a kernel that they couldn't
verify corresponded exactly to clean sources.  Such insane people are
called "Windows users", and we are here because we are NOT Windows users.

Recompiling a kernel, even with a stock config file, is like getting
your own apartment rather than living in your parent's basement. 
Not everyone needs to do it, but it is not that hard, and it is
an important step in the growth of an open source software user.
It is empowering, and it should be made easy.

So leave the kernel sources on the source disks, or on a mirror, but
please provide a cookbook so that newbies can experience them.

Keith

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