> > It's just an RPM. Nothing else. Just download it and double-click. No > > modprobe, no kernel compile, no reboot, just double-click it. That's it. > > Done. Simple. Easy. Linux is not as hard as everyone wants to make it > > these days. :-) > > This seriously blows my mind. If it's not as easy and recompiling the > kernel, then what kind of Voodoo magic is this?
It is a module. You just grab the rpm and then the module gets loaded into the kernel. No voodoo, just good modular kernel design. And since almost everyone using redhat uses the same standard kernel you can do things like wrap a precompiled module into an rpm and almost everyone can use it. -- Michael GnuPG Fingerprint: 4C56 7C23 8BD9 8B39 C4D4 B8F3 42FB 3634 31B5 E963
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