On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote: > > I think that you missed the original poster's point. Users shouldn't > > have to recompile their kernels to get their PS/2 mice to work. Such a > > I will unfortunately continue this thread with nothing but opinions. I > think that any person wanting to run Unix on their own computer should be > able to 1) download files, 2) uncompress and untar files, 3) type 'make > config', and the least 4) make a boot floppy. They don't even have to > understand LILO. > > Making a new kernel is not that difficult.
1) and 2) are a big problem if like me you only set up the machines with very small linux partitions. I've been setting up several student PCs here with Debian for use just as X terminals, which only have small hard disks, and still need DOS & windows. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ben McKeegan Assistant Computer Officer Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.