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

[Clint Brubakken <cabrubak@xxxxxxx>]

A lot of HowTo's are old and don't take in fact the newer module support
built into todays distributions



On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 18:09, bbales wrote:
> 
> 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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