User: motyl

one can use any kernel with any distribution

On: ESR On O'Reilly Summit

I use mostly RH because it has a good balance between "ease of configuration" and "simplicity of configuration". But I very seldom use RH kernel. The first thing I do on every box I install is to take clean 2.0.36, add Alan's pre-patches, then secure-linux patch by Solar and often some others.

Kernel is one of the most interchangable components in Linux distribution.

e2fsck -p

On: Can Linux Work Without Shutdown?

Mount RW only the part of filesystem where you want to store some things permanently. Use ramdisk
for temporary storage. Mount the rest RO or run everything from RAM as suggested.

If you have e2fsck in your start-up scripts, add
"-p" option to it.

eDNS - it has already happen

On: WIPO, TLDs and Trademarks

Please visit http://www.edns.net/

The alternative DNS system is working since over 2 years.

However it's spreading seems to have stopped. The present system seems to be good enough for most.

there are some good windows freeware apps.

On: Impact of Windows Programmer Hordes on Linux?

I would really love to get ports of programs
like Pegasus Mail. Based on standards, efficient
extremally flexible. I use pine since few years, but still not all of pmail's features are there.

Another thing is solving stupid problems with fonts, preconfigured Mozilla configuration with plug-ins etc. Every such configuration step is easy to make, but if you need to make 50 of them
to get usable system it becomes annoying.