From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 09:54:11 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 DEE2616A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web10106.mail.yahoo.com (web10106.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 380D64400D for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:54:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from twigles@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030924165411.65083.qmail@web10106.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.5.49.41] by web10106.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:54:11 PDT Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:54:11 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les To: Michal Pasternak In-Reply-To: <20030924184848.GA15056@pasternak.w.lub.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:54:12 -0000 Wow man, I thought this was a discussion (aka exchange of views and ideas). You have some serious little-man complex going on. I'm done with this thread now thnx. --- Michal Pasternak wrote: > 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. ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Get a taste of Religion ... eat a priest! ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com