FreeBSD as a desktop OS was Re: Sorry

[twig les]

Wow man, I thought this was a discussion (aka exchange of views
and ideas).  You have some serious little-man complex going on. 
I'm done with this thread now thnx.


--- Michal Pasternak <michal at pasternak.w.lub.pl> wrote:
> twig les [Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:30:27AM -0700]:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, have you seen FreeBSD 5.x ? 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Oh my my. That's sooo leet attitude. On my laptop I just
> loaded some
> modules, that came with Debian's 2.4.21 kernel package. Pity
> you had to wait
> for recompilation.
> 
> > isn't whining, aside from some frustration I enjoyed
> learning
> > the OS better, but my dad will *never* do that.
> 
> Why do you think, that editing some configuration file and
> typing "make" is
> "learning the OS better"?
> 
> > To be honest I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from my
> own
> > line of reasoning.
> 
> I see.
> 
> -- 
> Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl
> Noise to meet you.


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