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date: 2006-01-07 20:31:10
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Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:44:42 -0500
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Hello Maurice.

05 Jan 06 21:04, you wrote to me:

 MK> Welcome to Linux 2.6.15

Busy downloading it, not heard any sob storyies about it, so why not ... 


 MK> root:~# ls /sys/
 MK> block/  bus/  class/  devices/  firmware/  kernel/  module/  power/

Same as 2.6.11 here

 MK> root:~# ls /proc/
 MK> 1/     1119/  1345/  3008/  3108/  8/         devices      fs/
 MK> kmsg     net/        sys/ 108/   112/   1511/  3011/  4/     859/
 MK> diskstats    ide/        loadavg  partitions  sysvipc/ 109/   12/

Much the same here ....

 MK> There is more but the above ought to give an idea.  Also it looks like
 MK> /sys is now automagically mounted and I'll try later by hashing it out
 MK> in /etc/fstab.  Also also I'll hash out /proc and see how far I can
 MK> get without it.  My guess is that much of the networking stuff will
 MK> bitch and complain about that.  Not sure about pcmcia yet as I notice
 MK> some stuff regarding pcmcia_cs at kernel.org so liberating that from
 MK> proc may be doable at this stage of the game.  However I am betting
 MK> myself that I still need /proc for the time being even if I do manage
 MK> to get away with liberating pcmcia from /proc.

Okay, let me know how it goes ...

 MK> Also also also I want to try and see if directfb will work with sysfs.
 MK> I've yet to be able to do that.  However I think I'll try X before I
 MK> do that.  Do you care about the gtk stuff?  I figure I can live
 MK> without it if I run blackbox or windowmaker or simular window managers
 MK> that only require X and it's basic dependancies.  What do you think?

GTK, I don't really use here, X with a window manager is good enough ...

Found a nice cd-ripping script, called "abcde", I like it ... 

Russell

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