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SubjectRe: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?
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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