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On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 19:43 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > Linux kernel configuration, however... Whatever are you doing that requires you to configure the kernel?? The only time I've had to do that in recent memory was to fix a broken DSDT when I bought a bleeding edge laptop. Even that was worked around a couple of kernel versions later - are we expecting the kernel team to fortune tell on what hardware vendors might break next? Some linux distros don't even need a recompile for a broken DSDT anyway. I run Fedora on a range of hardware and really don't recognise any of the problems you're reporting. But then you don't seem to have used any Linux machines seriously since, well, five years ago? Sure some of the complaints were valid then (and still are on some distros) but all the mainstream ones are with it these days. And all are improving faster than any other OS on the planet, so soon they'll be way ahead (and they already are in a number of areas). Cheers, Martin. PS. I actually found linux kernel config really rather easy last time I did it. Download the .src.rpm, install it (using the normal package install command), tweak the .config file and rpmbuild it. Then it installs using my normal package manager and is handled just like a distro package. I've never seen any other OS I could do that on in less than 4 steps.There's stuff above here
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