Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? | Date | Thu, 03 Jan 2002 13:42:42 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> said: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Horst von Brand wrote: > > I'd wagger Aunt Tillie doesn't run Linux on Ye Olde Coffepot, but on a new, > > PCI-only machine. So this is doubly silly... > > *your* Aunt Tillie perhaps. I know several folks whose parents have > now inherited their offsprings old computers, and are now using Linux > on them to read their mail, write a book, whatever.. > And these cast offs are not fantastic machines, they're 486/586 class.
If I give the old coffepot to Aunt Tillie with Linux, I'll take some care of the updates and such for her later. And for sanity's sake I'll stick to distribution-build kernels if at all possible in any case.
> Fleeting judgements like yours above are just plain wrong.
Right. But for Aunt Tillie who has to do the managing of the machine by herself, she'll either go to a distribution and won't fool around with compiling 2.4.18preX for the sake of it, or is at least mildly interested in kernel development and doesn't need handholding. Why an average (non-hacker) Aunt Tillie won't be satisfied with e.g. Red Hat or Madrake or whatever kernel or an update is just way beyond me. Source-build kernels are strictly "check out this new feature" or "see if it breaks", or perhaps "need a custom configuration for this piece of junk from the scrapheap" not for day-to-day use by unwashed masses. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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