Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<40abd701$0$1583$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> Dusan Bolek wrote:
> I have to install a driver for my 802.11g network card on Windows XP,
> too. You know what the vendor said when I asked about Linux support:
> "there is a generic driver, but you'll need to recompile your kernel
> before it works". And that was the hardware vendor talking!!

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> Well, people may well confuse it, but I don't. Provided a simple driver
> installation is all that's required, to me that counts as 'working first
> time every time'. If it involved registry hacking, different story (but
> it rarely does). If it involves kernel recompilation, forget it!

It seems to me that we hit the point. For me, a kernel recompilation is a normal task to be done, but for some people (probably including you) recompiling of linux kernel still has some aura of an advanced hacking. It was true in old days (five years before), but now it is an extremely easy task, almost anyone can do this. Really, try to reconfigure and recompile some of new 2.6 kernels and you will see that there is no problem at all. Just:

1. download, untar <- no big deal
2. run make menuconfig and you will get GUI (well it is in text mode, but it behave like GUI, however X-Win version is also available), where you can select and unselect anything including drivers (probably also for your wireless card).
3. make <- compilation starts
4. make modules_install <- instalation of modules, nothing to be worry about, no option just run
5. make install <- on advanced distributions with GRUB this will also copy a new kernel into /boot, create initrd file and update your configuration so your brand new kernel is already in GRUB menu after reboot!

That's all. Maybe I'm weird, but for me this is much easier than making my eight year old FDD work (as I remember according to MS and Intel five years before should FDD alredy be a part of history).

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Dusan Bolek