FreeBSD as a desktop OS was Re: Sorry

[Michal Pasternak]

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.

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