$200 computer: Status report

[Net Llama!]

On 04/27/03 10:34, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 1. Compiling  a new kernel.
>      I used to do this sort of thing with abandon, but they
>      have made it too complicated for me.  The kernel.o usually
>      gives errors, although I did get around it. It uses devfs,
>      which has no documentation I have found. This seems to
>      require initrd, which also is not documented.  Add to his
>      the program fooze which changes your lilo.conf randomly,
>      and I am out of this. Thanks to devfs I can't boot up
>      with a rescue  CD and chroot. So, I will not be burning
>      any kernels on this again.

why not just grab the latest from kernel.org, and not waste time with 
someone else's version of the kernel?

> 3. Video.
>      Attempts to use xine or run Doom hang the system and,
>      in the case of xine, made it unbootable. Since I can't
>      save this thang with a rescue disk (devfs again) I am
>      afraid to try anything which hoses the system.

Did you build xine from source?

> So, overall, I think this has been a decent investment for a
> workstation. It is not good if you want to get under the hood, since
> the ease of use features in this distro make that difficult. You would
> have to spend a lot of time ripping stuff out, I think, before it would
> be fun to play with.

I'd personally rip out the OS and install Redhat, but that's just me.

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