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Andrew Hood <ajhood@fl.net.au> writes:

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>J. J. Horner wrote:


>> 
>> 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.

Seen it. You probably do have a hardware problem.

>> 
>> If I sound bitter, I am.  I bought Linux because someone told me it was a
>> good OS.  

..which is the undoubtable truth.
 
It is, however, a different world.

>> As yet, I have found nothing in it to prove that or make me want
>> to abandon win95.  

Well, it is NOT a replacement for Win95 if all you need is to run
Win95-specific software. If , however, you do need a robust and high-end
server OS at an unbeatable price, it is what you have been looking for.

>> As far as I am concerned, Linus Torvald should have never
>> started this little project.  

Nice try, but this kind of argumentation won't give you much sympathy
from anyone, be it Linux-hater or not. You start looking like a troll.
If all you want to do is to start another flamebait, try col.advocacy .

>> 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.

[...]

You probably have a hardware problem. If the compilation fails with
"cc got fatal signal 11" or similar, go to 

http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11

and read about the most likely reasons for this sort of errors.
In Win95, you would have seen a BSOD much earlier. In Linux, the
system keeps running fine. That's one of the differences.

Yes, the setup is sometimes painful, especially if your local setup is
rather unusual. But please keep in mind that most of the software
has been written by volunteers . That doesn't mean that their drivers
are worse than those of a commercial software enterprise, but it results
in certain limitations towards the number of possible hardware setups
the driver had been tested against. If you have bought a Linux distribution,
try contacting the distributor's support division first. If this fails,
try asking the folks here in comp.os.linux.* .

Now either show us a detailed error message and a system description,
or please leave out the col.* groups from your crossposting lists.

Michael
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