Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:48:29 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> To: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> Cc: Randi Harper <sektie@freebsdgirl.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a desktop OS was Re: Sorry Message-ID: <20030924164829.7f7c6bdd.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> 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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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:30:27 -0700 (PDT) twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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. The key is abstraction...*heavy* > abstraction. I point again to Mac. > > 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. This > isn't whining, aside from some frustration I enjoyed learning > the OS better, but my dad will *never* do that. Neither will my > wife, sister, the lady in HR, the CFO, etc. BTW why not just load the kernel module???
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