[Tfug] linux no longer for amateurs

[Nathan England]

On Friday 15 January 2010 14:55:03 erich wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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What chipsets are on these machines? I have given up with AMD systems of any 
kind. I have not had much luck on anything outside of pure intel systems for a 
long time. All my dozens of intel systems work wonderfully, both old and new, 
yet my AMD systems are hit and miss, and the newer they are the more likely to 
miss.

nathan