On 7 May 2014 22:38, <sl@9front.org> wrote:

> . Some people
> (not knowing the full situation) offered advice about publicly
> available amd64 kernels and were shot down.
>

they weren't "shot down", but saying use MY distribution over here,
or use MY distribution over here, didn't directly help with the problem
of starting from sources (which was actually closer to the original
question).
normally, it wouldn't really matter, and i'd have kept out of it,
but in this case it did. i'm fairly sure nothing warranted the subsequent
comments that owe more to dan brown than reality.
(come to mention it, i did Dan Brown a favour last year, unwittingly.)