On Saturday 04 May 2002 05:12, Osamu Aoki wrote: -snip-
> > Good for you. You must be running 2.4 kernel on woody, I guess. SID 2.4.18-custom -snip- > You can always recompile but learning to do without tends to be more > productive in long run, I think. > > You can do "insmod" or "modprobe" to activate most modules using stock > debian kernels including "sr_mod". This means more entries to > /etc/modules. > > I am kind of sad people jump on recompiling kernel when they do not need > it do it :( Debian reference: Well i do have a few comments: 1.) I'm pretty sure that your right! (for the user who depends on his stable pc system for work and productivity) 2.) I have been now 3 years into linux (not so very long as you can see, call me a newbie =)) i have been using Mandrake the first 2 years and i allways used precompiled kernel images but i have to say that what i learned about linux in that time was (beside usability) not really satisfying. I heard people talking about kernel all the time and i thought they were talking about the army =). Then i tryed Debian and in the first two weeks i learned more about this fantastik OS than in the whole two years before. and after 2 months i built my first own kernel (wasnt really such a big deal) using kernel-package, after two tries i had it up and running (i know my hardware) now this new kernel was amaizingly fast (depmod -a took only a fraction of a second, i got my geforce2 up to 2500 FPS in glxgears, and the bootup goes much quicker cause i dont have stuff loaded (pnp etc.) that i didnt need) the overall size of /lib/modules/2.4.18 is only 2.8 MB. So you see that im playing Debian instead of UnrealTournament and im learning by doing. And im not recompiling every weekend or so but i just got a burner into the box and had no scsi-support atleast now i know what REALLY is needed in the kernel for burning. conclusion: I think you have to differenciate between users who depend on reliabillity and users who experiment and play with there machines cause they wanna learn something thats why i use SID. ps: i do not recommend doing it same way as me except if youre brave and do not depend on the stabillity of your pc. -snip- Cheers Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
