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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???