From: MikkelFJ Date: 2003-02-11T04:15:39+09:00 Subject: Re: The way of the Gentoo "Ollivier Robert" wrote in message news:b28o3d$nub$1@saphir.eurocontrol.fr... > In article <3e42dada$0$158$edfadb0f@dtext01.news.tele.dk>, > MikkelFJ wrote: > > Gentoo based on a FreeBSD users recommendation, since FreeBSD is not the > > easiest for stuff other than servers (notably sound support requires kernel > > rebuild). > > Nope, no kernel rebuild for sound under FreeBSD. Just load the snd_pcm > kernel module (kldload snd_pcm) and you're set! Nice, I must try that. I have decided that life is too short for kernel builds - I temporarily gave that up while testing Gentoo, but I have grown to regret that decision (I like the Gentoo spirit but it needs a couple of years...). (after dumping Gentoo I eventually managed to install Redhat, but without wlan <=> status quo with Gentoo) - Oh and suddenly you can't logout from Redhat desktop - fortunately my user account allowed me to reboot (safe huh?) so I didn't risk trashing the filesystem powering off - and it trashes disk more than Windows. FreeBSD is by far the easiest free OS I've tried because - while not trivial - your efforts are usually rewarded within reasonable time. mmmm I need a server running so I can get back to writing software. BTW: I just discovered the original smiley proposal - it was retrieved on a FreeBSD 4.1 from a 20 year old tape backup... :-) http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm The author about the smiley: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm Mikkel