Open source driver - Windows XP

[Liam Proven]

On 24 June 2010 09:20, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 24, 2010 03:23 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
>> On Thu, June 24, 2010 05:42, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>> On Thursday, June 24, 2010 07:14 AM, NoOp wrote:
>>
>> *snip*
>>
>>>> Now, the worst part is that Ubuntu _includes_ the hplip drivers on
>>>> install whether you have an HP device or not. Over 40MB of useless drive
>>>> space.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I wonder how much of the kernel modules are actually used. Do we need to
>>> shave off a few too? I mean, /lib/modules/${kernel-version} is over a
>>> hundred mebibytes and I doubt they are all used. That's definitely over
>>> 40MB of useless drive space too.
>>
>> Hey guys, Gentoo is over there ----->
>>
>>
>
> I was being sarcastic. I did not know Gentoo lets you control things
> down to what kernel modules are installed...

It ain't all that.

I tried it a while ago and while it lets you play with yourself at
great length by changing processor-specific optimisation flags and so
on while compiling your system, it is not actually /really/
customisable. For instance, I find a BSD init rather clearer, more
comprehensible and more easily manipulated than the SysV init. Can you
change from one to the other? Can you hell.

In other words, it lets you customise easy stuff but not the hard,
important stuff.

Kids' toy, to my mind.

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