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usability [was Re: [ILUG] To ubuntu or not to ubuntu]

usability [was Re: [ILUG] To ubuntu or not to ubuntu]

conor at discuskeeping.com conor at discuskeeping.com
Thu Feb 8 13:52:42 GMT 2007


>>
>>> As I get older, I'm coming to the conclusion that Bill Gates
>>> has got a lot of things right.
>>> Many things are set up and set out much better in Windows.
>>> Eg the Control Panel is so much better organised.
>>
>> I spent all day yesterday doing an incredible amount of manual labor
>> with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to make it do some pretty basic stuff.
>> If at all possible I'm suggesting the folks I'm contracting with (on
>> stuff totally unrelated to this) to avoid the parent-company-induced
>> RHEL requirement and do everything under Ubuntu or SuSE until it proves
>> to actually be necessary.  I had to go digging in their release notes
>> and elsewhere to have the steps to be able to have the kernel source in

Sorry, for the kernel source you should do :

# up2date -f kernel kernel-devel

or

# up2date -f kernel-smp kernel-smp-devel

(always get both at the same time, just in case there is a new one)



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