Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2002 04:03:01 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>: > > Think useability. On Macintoshes, you configure a kernel by moving > > the equivalents of modules in and out of a system folder. Users tune > > their kernels by moving files around -- no muttering of elaborate > > incantations required. *That's* the direction we should be moving in; > > there is no good technical reason for the process to be anywhere near > > as arcane as it is now. > > We have it better than that already. The distro vendor provides all the > modules and they're automatically loaded on demand - you don't even need to > move them into the system folder.
So you're saying the users should be completely lost any time they want to use an upated kernel? -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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