From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 09:51:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AFD716A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pr93.lublin.sdi.tpnet.pl (pr93.lublin.sdi.tpnet.pl [217.97.36.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6302343FE0 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl) Received: (qmail 15155 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Sep 2003 18:48:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:48:48 +0000 From: Michal Pasternak To: twig les Message-ID: <20030924184848.GA15056@pasternak.w.lub.pl> References: <20030924163027.60899.qmail@web10106.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030924163027.60899.qmail@web10106.mail.yahoo.com> cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a desktop OS was Re: Sorry X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Michal Pasternak List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:51:59 -0000 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.