Configuring the 2.6 Linux Kernel 279
An anonymous reader writes "This article is the first in a series by William von Hagen on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel, with a special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel. Bill is the author of Linux Filesystems, Hacking the TiVo, SGML for Dummies, Installing Red Hat Linux 7, and is the coauthor of The Definitive Guide to GCC (with Kurt Wall) and The Mac OS X Power Users Guide (with Brian Profitt)." This looks to be a good series for anyone planning to migrate to Linux 2.6, and having done just that myself, I'll attest to wanting more documentation along the way.
I'll summerize (Score:-1, Insightful)
Misinformation (Score:5, Insightful)
This recent trend in GUIfication of Linux is troubling, and your post illustrates exactly why. It's the same 'logic' that allowed MS to call Windows an 'Operating System' before it really was. It's the same logic that lusers use when they say that they 'can't get into the Microsoft' when they really mean there's an application problem.
Computers are NOT monolithic, they are NOT black boxes. They are boxes of legos, where you can build what you want, when you want it, and leave out the crap. You have control.
Unless you cede responsibility and control to someone else.
They need a tutorial on this stuff? (Score:4, Insightful)
I have never compiled my kernel before, and today I jsut compiled the 2.4 version, installed and later compiled 2.6.1 and installed... all without any problems.
Enough rant
I just like the config file method. Does this mean that I can keep my config file (for compiling the kernel) when I upgrade to the next stable? (keeping in mind that I have it customized)
Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 (Score:5, Insightful)
I stick to the "hard" way.
Importance of Documentation (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Usability? (Score:-1, Insightful)
Re:They need a tutorial on this stuff? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:The Communist-Linux Connection (Score:5, Insightful)
As opposed to, say, Microsoft or Oracle providing the software? And you don't think that the Chinese (or Indians, or Russians, or whatever) have the ability to write software themselves, that programming is somehow a uniquely American talent? If you get your head out of whatever other anatomical place it's parked in, you'd see how silly that is.
One of the advantages of Windows never mentioned in the article is the ability of Microsoft to remotely deactivate Windows XP in the case of a national emergency.
And you wonder why the rest of the world is moving away from it. Whether it's true or not, just making statements like this hurts the U.S. software industry more than anything that Stallman can say.
A known proponent of socialism, the Chinese government and RMS are natural allies.
Well golly, Bubba, it seems that the Bush administration has been getting pretty cozy with the Chinese government, too. If anyone's looking to sell out Taiwan, there's where you want to direct your vitriol. Are you aware that the President's brother, Neil Bush, is getting rich lobbying for China? No, I didn't think so...
Oops... I think I got baited!
Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 (Score:3, Insightful)
What eject button? (Score:1, Insightful)
My Mac Cube doesn't even have a hole
for a paperclip.
So yes, the GUI does need to include
a method to cause eject. The installer
needs to eject a disk as well.
Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 (Score:3, Insightful)