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The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat
flap:
quote:1. By the way, how do the drivers built into the Linux kernel work?
2. When you select the options in the setup program is the kernel compiled according to your preferences?
3. What happens if you need to change anything?
4. With my winmodem driver the installation script asked me to install the development tools together with the kernel source, is this normal?
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1. The drivers aren't built into the kernel (at least not usually). They're compiled as modules that can be dynamically loaded and unloaded as required.
2. No.
3. You recompile it, but it's not especially likely you will need to change anything.
4. Yes.
quote:Another thing I have to bitch about is what's with all these different desktops, software written for one often doesn't work in a different desktop, isn't this a standards problem?
Sometimes I don't even get any error message, for example I boot into Gnome, and click on Kword, fuck all happens. Does this sound a bit strange to you?
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All software should run in any desktop. Kword should run in Gnome, or any other desktop/window manager for that matter. Try typing "kword" in a terminal and see what error message you get.
[ July 12, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]
WMD:
quote:Sometimes I don't even get any error message, for example I boot into Gnome, and click on Kword, fuck all happens. Does this sound a bit strange to you?
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That's because Kword sucks. In Gnome you should use Abiword, it's better than Kword anyway.
Either way, software for different desktops should always work in others, provided that the one it was designed for is installed.
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by WMD:
In Gnome you should use Abiword.
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Not only in gnome.
SheedRicolan:
One word: OpenOffice :D
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