[mdlug] KDE 4

[Robert Adkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Wolfger
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:02 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] KDE 4
> 
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Michael S. Mikowski 
> <z_mikowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Some would are masochistic if you install Gentoo in the 
> first place :)
> 
> s/would are/would say you are/ ;-)
> 
> > Although I do see the value in going through the install process.
> 
> I learned a lot about Linux by installing Gentoo. For 
> starters, compiling a kernel scared the hell out of me before 
> Gentoo. The install walked me through that, and after a few 
> kernel upgrades I began to see it as so simple that I 
> couldn't understand why people are afraid of it...
> 
> The best reason to install Gentoo, though, is to never ever 
> have to install Linux again :-)
> 
> 
> --
> Wolfger
> http://wolfger.wordpress.com/
> 

	A great deal has changed in the world of compiling/installing a
Linux Kernel. It's practically automagic, in that the scripts not only
create a truly easy to understand GUI, it also reads in all the settings
from your existing kernel, including the location it resides and modules it
requires AND even reads in your boot loader. Once finished with setting up
the configuration, the compiling process will install the kernel AND modify
your bootloader for the new kernel.

	This is worlds beyond the old days. I wish that I had access to such
tools way back in the heady days of Red Hat 5.2... I would have been
compiling my own kernel for years now.

	-Rob

	"Meh, kids these days and there newfangled GUI Kernel Compiling and
Configuring tools... Get offa my lawn..." - Me