From my own experience being an electrical engineering student getting ever closer to graduation, I must say that a CS degree may seem a little pointless. I used to work as a computer technician which required little or no school experience whatsoever. So I decided to go into the electronics end of EE. I must say that you can't just pick up this stuff on your own. I've taken several supplementary CS courses for my degree and I must say that the smartest people in these classes were the engineers taking them!!! I think all of the people who say college is worthless is or has gone to college for all the wrong reasons. You definitely need a great deal more education to be an engineer than a CS major. I'd rather be building the computers than trying to write software for them.
From my experience, running kernel 2.2.x or 2.1.x on top of Redhat 5.2 is best done by getting the kernel source from ftp.kernel.org, or your local mirror where available. I've also managed to get them running on my Alpha box running 5.1. I upgraded to EGCS 1.1.1 on both machines, and checked to make sure I had the latest stable libc installed. Other than that, I had no problems getting the kernel compiled and running.
I spend my time using Netscape on Windows and Linux, and I must say, I'm not too fond of the Motif widgets under Linux. For one thing, the scroll bars are two narrow to grab, and the drop-down text boxes look ugly. Not to mention that the font rendering is usually smaller and harder to read under Linux(even when using the exact same TTF's). In my opinion, this is a great step towards making Netscape looking exactly the same regardless of what platform you're on. I believe this is a good step towards supplanting IE as the dominant browser under Windows. Since IE is only supported on Solaris and Macs, a universal browser by Netscape under any platform may change the balance of power.
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From my own experience being an electrical engineering student getting ever closer to graduation, I must say that a CS degree may seem a little pointless. I used to work as a computer technician which required little or no school experience whatsoever. So I decided to go into the electronics end of EE. I must say that you can't just pick up this stuff on your own. I've taken several supplementary CS courses for my degree and I must say that the smartest people in these classes were the engineers taking them!!! I think all of the people who say college is worthless is or has gone to college for all the wrong reasons. You definitely need a great deal more education to be an engineer than a CS major. I'd rather be building the computers than trying to write software for them.
From my experience, running kernel 2.2.x or 2.1.x on top of Redhat 5.2 is best done by getting the kernel source from ftp.kernel.org, or your local mirror where available. I've also managed to get them running on my Alpha box running 5.1. I upgraded to EGCS 1.1.1 on both machines, and checked to make sure I had the latest stable libc installed. Other than that, I had no problems getting the kernel compiled and running.
I spend my time using Netscape on Windows and Linux, and I must say, I'm not too fond of the Motif widgets under Linux. For one thing, the scroll bars are two narrow to grab, and the drop-down text boxes look ugly. Not to mention that the font rendering is usually smaller and harder to read under Linux(even when using the exact same TTF's). In my opinion, this is a great step towards making Netscape looking exactly the same regardless of what platform you're on. I believe this is a good step towards supplanting IE as the dominant browser under Windows. Since IE is only supported on Solaris and Macs, a universal browser by Netscape under any platform may change the balance of power.