Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/07/2000 (00:29) : > Why is it that under Windows or whatever I don't have to recompile > the kernel just to add a new driver? Is it a protection thing? > Or an optimization thing? Or something else? -chris
Usually you don't have to recompile your kernel under Linux. Just use the kernel-package that contains the kernel with all the modules you need. I guess you could recompile your Windows kernel too _if_ you have access to the Windows source files and own a compiler. -- Preben Randhol -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- <http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/> +---+ "There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate | ! | superiority of the male, except his superior muscle." +---+ -- Bertrand Russell, Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind (1950)
