Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 May 2006 22:45:59 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? |
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On Sun, 2006-05-28 15:55:29 -0400, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 20:12 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Also... why would there really be a need for such a way? Not for > > building anything for sure.... it's for the human. And the human seems > > to just find it already (and again the boot file works well in practice > > it seems) > > Debugging. When a new Linux user files a "no sound" ALSA bug report I > need to find out whether they have any known broken options enabled, > like USB bandwidth checking or the OSS USB midi/audio drivers. If we > have to go back and forth figuring out which distro they have and where > the config is they are that much more likely to give up and go back to > Windows.
...which isn't always the worst solution to the problem. If some guy doesn't want to jump through the loops to figure out what's actually broken, Windows may be a good solution for them. "World domination" also means "dominated by the world's problems," so I tend to go a step back from time to time:-)
MfG, JBG
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