On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, yan seiner wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > I still keep all of the RH niceties, without the sometimes funky
> > behavior of patched kernels. After RH's glibc fiasco, I'm not sure I'd
> > trust one of their kernels anyway ;-)
>
> What glibc fiasco are you talking about and how does it relate to the
> kernel? I'm humming along just nicely with glibc 2.2. With compat
> libraries for glibc 2.1 installed, I am compatible with binaries linked
> against either. By the way, I've never been able to recompile the kernel
> by hand from the redhat sources (kernel-*-source.i386.rpm). It always
> complains. I do builds from kernel.org. Getting the Reiserfs tools is
> not a big deal, after configuring your kernel to support Resierfs. Will
> Win4Lin support running on Reiserfs? A lot of distros are heading that
> way. I see no reason for an average user not to use it. No more problems
> with unclean ext2 systems, etc. That's what I'd use on a machine fro my
> grandmother, for example.
I'm running mandrake 7.2 with /home as a reiserfs filesystem (where my
windows stuff is).
> As for Win4Lin being a useful, full-time tool, and not a transitional
> program, I heartily agree. We just need single-window suppport, rather
> than having to see a desktop window. Having windows apps draw on the X
> desktop would be very cool and not that hard at all. Given some time, and
> a little win32 api help, I bet one could hack VNC to export application
> windows (I've seen a hack that can export a single window -- but here
> we're talking about many windows: an application window and all it's
> childre). A combination of an X client and a special video driver in
> windows, communicating via some win4lin pipe, could do this easily. I
> expect this in Win4Lin 4.0 for sure.
I'd love to have two things fixed:
1. The annoying error when emptying the trash. Sheesh, guys, this
bug has been there since 1.0!
2. Fix the network socket/buffer/whatever leak that means I have to
restart windows every hour or so.
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