Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:48:48 +0000 From: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> To: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a desktop OS was Re: Sorry Message-ID: <20030924184848.GA15056@pasternak.w.lub.pl> In-Reply-To: <20030924163027.60899.qmail@web10106.mail.yahoo.com> References: <C07187E9-EE55-11D7-B2EE-000393D46EC6@freebsdgirl.com> <20030924163027.60899.qmail@web10106.mail.yahoo.com>
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twig les [Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:30:27AM -0700]: > Neener neener? Hahaha. I think the point is that RH is > shooting to be a desktop for ppl who can't recompile a kernel, > will never know how to recompile a kernel and don't ever want to > know what a kernel is. Well, have you seen FreeBSD 5.x ? > To get FreeBSD on my laptop I had to recompile the kernel for my > NIC, and it took me awhile to figure out that when I enabled > sound (another kernel rebuild) I had to tell it in the kernel to > use a specific IRQ bc it booted my NIC out of its IRQ. Oh my my. That's sooo leet attitude. On my laptop I just loaded some modules, that came with Debian's 2.4.21 kernel package. Pity you had to wait for recompilation. > isn't whining, aside from some frustration I enjoyed learning > the OS better, but my dad will *never* do that. Why do you think, that editing some configuration file and typing "make" is "learning the OS better"? > To be honest I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from my own > line of reasoning. I see. -- Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl Noise to meet you.
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