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Q: How can you build on top of something that can't be built?

A: I'll repeat this...I'm typing slowly so you might understand. (Unlikely, but I have to try...) The average Linux user doesn't have to compile anything. You can, if you want to and have a reasonable degree of skill, but you don't have to.

Q: Every try to compile linux code?

A: Sure. Compiled a kernel (2.6.22.i686) earlier today, as a matter of fact. No build errors. And I'm running this instance of firefox on the kernel I built. Guess what--no segfaults. (By the way, you don't compile "Linux." Linux is a huge collection of things--the kernel, drivers, modules, etc.; compilers and other development tools; windowing systems (e.g., X, GNOME, KDE); and lots of applications--all compiled separately.)

You keep posting this kind of FUD, Rock, and I know, from vast experience--compiling kernels and the like is part of my job--you are, at best, hopelessly incompetent when it comes anything more complex than poking at the pretty little pictures on your screen. More likely, you've never run Linux in your life and certainly wouldn't have the faintest idea even how to go about compiling a simple application, let alone a kernel. If you have any Linux experience at all, it seems, from your observations, to have been with the Linux of the early 1990s; modern Linux is nothing like it was way back then.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Linux is a complete, stable, OS-plus-applications that needs no more hand-holding than Windows does--and possibly less, judging from what I've been reading about Vista.

Posted by: Henrik Moller   Posted on: 08/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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