$author = "Henry T Wijaya" ;
>
> 1) what's the difference between module & 'compiling into kernel'?
> My intuition is that module is 'called' the kernel is trying to access a
> particular hardware, while 'compiling into kernel' is including the
> module into the kernel. Right?
compiled in - this functionality is loaded at boot and is available all the
time...
module - this is dynamically loaded when required. only uses memory when
loaded. can cause problems if the boot kernel can't access modules for one
reason or another (a common catch 22 is to have filesystem support for the
partition that has the modules compiled as a module. you can't mount the
filesystem without the module, can't load the module because the filesystem
isn't mounted).
> 2) Since Mandrake's 8.2 installation takes care detection of all
> hardware automatically, now that I need to change a new pcmcia card, how
> do I do it? This questions leads to, since pcmcia is hot-swappable even
> when the system is on, do I need to 'switch off' the device before
> removing it or do I simply physically the card?
i am not sure about this, but issuing a 'restart' to pcmcia services would
get it to notice the change in cards...
> 3) Which particular office program that m$ office 2k is most compatible
> with? Previous message, someone mentioned that Sun's StarOffice isn't
> that good after all (I'm being generic here since I don't know the
> details about it).
try star office, open office, abiword (word), gnumeric (excel)...
YMMV...
marty
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