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LinuxPlanet on FC4T2
LinuxPlanet takes a look at Fedora Core 4 test 2. The verdict: FC4 looks to kickass. Honestly, I have already upgraded to a lot of the new stuff: GCC4, KDE3.4... so it doesn't seem all that big a deal. However, getting to a 2.6.11+ kernel is important as 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 have a pingtrace that breaks the WineX "copy protection emulation" layer on the CDROM -- that means I can't play Warcraft 3 or Starcraft on the FC3.
And yes, I have become so lazy I don't want to build my own kernels anymore.
I haven't dug around in it yet, but I am hoping that FC4 includes all the dependency requirements to run Beagle and Dashboard. I looked at installing them from the yum repo at NRPMs.net, but it wanted to upgrade/install, well, everything related to GTK on my machine, and I didn't want to fool with it at the time.
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RE: LinuxPlanet on FC4T2
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@And yes, I have become so lazy I don't want to build my own kernels anymore.
I have had the discussion about to compile or not to compile with lots of folks, some of them calling me "lazy" or a "newbie" or whatever deragatory term because I DONT WANT TO COMPILE MY OWN KERNELS.
Its not a matter of lazy though, its also not a matter of not being able to type "make menuconfig" and pick some damn options in a menu (the "newbie" crack always gets me, as if its somehow difficult and requires great skill to compile a linux kernel) its a matter of making an intelligent decision. What I mean is I want a tested, easily maintained/upgraded kernel that is generalized for what I do. I want something the distro maker maintains and I know is solid. I dont want to compile very time I install a new device and I dont want to re-compile every time I upgrade/maintain the kernel (for new features or as a security fix, whatever).
Sure there A FEW times (very few) where you might need some special options and REQUIRE a custom kernel. But lately with modular components and more "runtime" type performance tweaks and such its just not really all that needed.
If you are compiling your own kernels then you either have a very specialized reason to do so (rare) or you just want to for fun (totall fine with that, when people cop to it), or you are a jackass and think thats somehow better just because you can complete the trivial process (and the latter there is probably the insecure type that likes to call others that dont compile their own "newbie" and such, makes em feel better about themselves).
RE: LinuxPlanet on FC4T2
Well, "back in the day" I guess I worried about what was in my kernel and not. The thing was, none of the distros came with Video4Linux compiled. You usually had to screw around to get something like a RealTek NIC or a 3DFX video card running smoothly, and I won't even go into sound cards and setting the PnP firmware on a 3c950.
At any rate, since RH8 or so, RH/FC has had pretty much everything I want in there. If there is some extra stuff I am not using, so be it, but being able to just let the package manager get me security updates and whatnot and not fool with it is worth whatever tiny bit of performance having some extra mods in the kernel costs me.
RE: LinuxPlanet on FC4T2
Before everything was a module, sure, but since Kernel 2.2 or so it just hasnt been necessary, yet I sometimes still get static.