🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 24 Jan 1998 23:01:00 -0500, J. J. Horner <hornerj@email.msn.com> wrote:
>Arthur Corliss wrote in message ...
>>I'm using slackware, but I don't believe this should make a difference.  If
>>you're using a kernel off of the CD or a boot disk, odds are it doesn't
>have
>>a lot of the networking functions built into the kernel.  There's really no
>>way around it, you'll have to compile a new one.  Then you get the fun of
>>setting the scripts up correctly.
>>
>>Don't get too worried about this, it'll become old hat eventually,  In the
>>meantime, there's plenty of us to help with specific problems.
>>
>> --Arthur Corliss
>>   Corliss Consultancy
>>   Anchorage, Alaska
>>
>
>I call BS on your 'old hat' statement.  I just recently installed Redhat
>5.0.  Fresh install with all of the trimmings.  I have yet to be able to
>compile a kernel that works.  If you will look at my many earlier postings
>requesting help (most of which no one is smart enough to answer, apparently)
>you will see my problem.  Look at the message title 'test of your little
>nirvana"  it lists my problems which no one can fix.
>
>If I sound bitter, I am.  I bought Linux because someone told me it was a
>good OS.  As yet, I have found nothing in it to prove that or make me want
>to abandon win95.  As far as I am concerned, Linus Torvald should have never
>started this little project.  It was an enormous waste of time.  I can't
>even get my kernel to compile right.  I don't see how anyone else is using
>it.
>

Sorry that you're having that much trouble.  I had a hell of a time migrating
from DOS/Windows/NT, but am now glad that I did.  I can't overstate how
important research and a few good books are.  But I have to admit that with this
OS you'll never stop learning, there's just that much ground to cover.

I haven't seen your other posts, and am a sporadic reader of these newsgroups
at best, but if you e-mail a list of some of your problems, I'll do what ever
I can to help you along.  Just as many other good folks have done for me,
something that I feel is a huge asset that Linux has over other OS communities.

	--Arthur Corliss
	  Corliss Consultancy
	  Anchorage, Alaska