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Peter da Silva wrote:
> But there's some damn "loadable drivers are good" meme out there
For the most part I agree with your rant. There's one exception,
though: my experience with IDE DVD-ROM drives on Linux has been
that the driver sometimes gets "stuck" -- you can't eject the disc,
and you can't read it.
Being able to unload/reload the driver in that case has been
immensely helpful to me.
There are a few other devices I've run into where being able to
completely reset the driver by way of rmmod/insmod (the em8300 driver
for example) has saved a reboot.
At any rate, I find Linux a whole lot easier to deal with if you
completely ignore the distributions' attempts at packaging the kernel
with fancy stuff and just build your own. Then it only matters what
they've done to it when you're doing the initial install, and for Gentoo
at least even then it doesn't matter -- if you can boot *something* and
get a shell you can install.
Matt
(still really likes the visual config mode of the FreeBSD kernel.)
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