Tue, 14 Mar 2006
My Least Favorite Part of GNU/Linux is...
Linux.
Yes, that's right. Linux is the worst part of Linux. Every time I get some hot
new device or upgrade the OS I have to recompile the kernel, recompile a kernel
module, or just live with the device not working. The stuff in user space is
great. Hell, I even know how to use XFree86 pretty well now and soon, x.org with
all of it's fancy drop shadows. But he
monolithic Linux kernel continues to be an endless game of
trial and error.
I am well aware of the "change to distribution X because it 'just works'"
response, but I think that's lame and it defeats the purpose of a good
distribution. That is to provide some consistancy to the user and give them a
support channel.
The funny ending to this story is that I have to say that my favorite
alternative to Linux, ATM, is...dum, dum, dum; Windows. But only the
NT kernel
and the lovley glut of drivers for every single piece of crappy or
extraordinary hardware out there. Userland in Windows sucks booty. If only
GNU
Hurd got off the ground, maybe we wouldn't all have to spend hours
recompiling kernels.
posted at: 20:23 | path:
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Jack...the project that will never agree on anything
My recent foray into an upgraded jackd configuration with a USB sound card shows that the
project still cannot figure out a way to interface with the kernel developers
to get realtime priority support into the vanilla sources. Jackd
always...always ends at compiling kernel level stuff, which takes hours of
trial, error and bug reporting. Everyone has their own special way of getting
it to "just work" and none ever do. Fuck! Get realtime-lsm into the kernel
source!
posted at: 12:19 | path:
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Darkice and Lame on Etch
More time to kill while I'm waiting for some info on the
m-a bug. Installing
the lame libs from
Marillat's apt
repo, the darkice source from sid and
rebuilding for etch with mp3 support went fine after editing out --without-lame
from debian/rules. That's nice. Next stop are the
seemingly broken prism2_cs drivers in 2.6.15. I think I'll rebuild the
kernel...yet...again...on this laptop. This is begining to be almost as fun as
running Windows.
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