[Tfug] linux no longer for amateurs

[erich]

OK,

   Here are the statistics:

kernel                  bzImage size              
Comments                   Cost of hardware
------                  ------------              
---------                  ----------------
2.6.24-r8               2724400                   Fully integrated. 
Does          $40
                                                  its day-to-day duties
                                                  including running this
                                                  e-mail editor. A DHCP
                                                  server, X server, and
                                                  print server

2.6.25-r9               2782172                   Fully integrated. Runs 
         free
                                                  as an X-host for other
                                                  systems. Performs multi-
                                                  media tasks: watching
                                                  movies. Watching YouTube.
                                                  Editing & producing video
                                                  clips.

2.6.31-r6               4320192                   Having difficulty 
integrating.  $350
                                                  kernel has been installed
                                                  on a 60G IDE drive 
that boots
                                                  up in some machines, 
but not
                                                  in others, (including the
                                                  target machine) Has been
                                                  installed and boots in 
another
                                                  machine however this 
machine
                                                  has an AGP card with 
an r128
                                                  chip. Xorg-server dies 
because
                                                  a kernel feature, 
MTRR, is being
                                                  deprecated.

    I've heard it said that the kernel developers no longer want to 
support old
hardware, but this machine I'm working on is brand new, and is becoming a
headache to integrate. The kernel is becoming a horrendously complicated
monstrosity that has mixed success working on the average joe's machine.
I subscribe to another listserv and someone there has thrown their arms
in despair about installing a late version of FC with , you guessed it,
the 2.6.31 kernel.
 
   I hate ts say it but this means that Micro$oft will win.


                                                  Erich