[aclug-L] Re: An idea -- any volunteers/helpers?

[bbales <bbales@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If, by power user, you mean anyone who might read a HOWTO, then you are 
right.  Most HOWTOs start with, "First, you must recompile your kernel."  
This has scared me off quite a few times.  The one time I decided to go ahead 
and recompile, I wound up reloading Linux.
bruce

On Thursday 21 February 2002 09:15 am, you wrote:
> The truth is for most newer distributions you don't  need to recompile
> the kernel. Things like kudzu in red hat, automatically install the
> modules for the hardware you have, and with the correct parameters.
>
> Only power users really need to compile the kernel any more.
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