Hi, George,
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:09:36 -0800 you said:
> This is indeed an issue that I believe NetTraverse needs to address.
> Although you should be able to configure your own 2.4 kernel with the
> software they supply, you really shouldn't have to.
Judging from all the timestamps on the many mails I received this
morning, it seems that I am the sole European contributor here, so
buenos dias from a hot and sunny Valencia, Spain.
I think it's unrealistic to expect NetTraverse to hold a library of
kernels for every eventuality. I have been building my own kernels for
a long time, and the generic Win4Lin patches are easy to apply and work
first time.
I already have some 2.4.x kernels compiled, and I look forward to be
able to patch them with Win4Lin3. Judging from previous performances, I
won't be disappointed.
For me, the only disappointment with Win4Lin is the limited funcionality
of the DOS program, but then again, I'm an old dinosaur who likes
command lines!
> They should keep an
> online library of kernel binaries for all kernel issues for the distros they
> support for all Win4Lin versions. That just can't be that difficult. Many
> users in fact generate their own kernels.
Precisely. And those who generate their own surely have the skill to
apply a patch, which doesn't take very long!
> Perhaps as an alternative, they
> could at least have an arrangement where whoever builds an unsupported
> Win4Lin kernel could contribute it to an ftp archive.
So, I contribute my kernels to the archive (which I'd be more than
willing to do). How many other people have exactly the same hardware
and resource requirements as me? My kernel is built to satisfy me, and
me alone.
I think NetTraverse have got it right. Pre-compiled kernels for the
main distros, and a series of patches to suite everybody else.
When I first installed Win4Lin, a couple of months ago, patching the
kernel was one of the few things that worked first time!
> This kernel patch
> thing is the one worst feature of Win4Lin (and VMWare is just as bad). Those
> are my thoughts.
And, in a friendly way, I hope, I have to say that I disagree. Without
the patching facility, Win4Lin would have been unuseable for me.
Bill Hayles
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