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I'm A Penguin
10-26-2002, 11:27 PM
I understand the differences in the personal desktop, workstation, server or custom installation types. I'm just not sure which one to use...
I assume I should use personal desktop, as I won't be doing any development or running any servers.
So, assuming personal desktop is the right installation for me (tell me if it isn't!)... what "extras," if any, should I select when given the option? Is there anything I should add that is commonly used or needed but omitted from the personal desktop installation? Any tools or apps that are useful or fun to play with?
Thanks for the help :)
if you plan on ever compiling anything from source you may want to consider installing all/some of the development libraries.
i would also install the kernel source
I'm A Penguin
10-27-2002, 01:10 AM
Good idea on the development libraries. I will try to figure out how to do that!
Excuse my ignorance, but I'm going to be ignorant :)
Why install the kernel source?
Thanks for the input, any and all is appreciated!
identitycrisis
10-27-2002, 02:17 AM
Originally posted by I'm A Penguin
Good idea on the development libraries. I will try to figure out how to do that!
Excuse my ignorance, but I'm going to be ignorant :)
Why install the kernel source?
Thanks for the input, any and all is appreciated!
I only have a limited knowledge about this kernel stuff.
First, it's not an army officer just sounds like and second, some harware drivers and apps (not sure for this) require you to rebuild the kernel to make them work.
Bird382
10-27-2002, 03:55 AM
You just might need the kernel source at some point in your linux voyage. At this stage in Linux, the kernel shipped with popular distributions sometimes leave out certain options that may be helpful to your hardware setup, or future goals. Installing the kernel gives you a copy of this locally and makes recompiling it easier, and also allows the RedHat Update agent to see the kernel source as an installed package and update it as with any other package.
If you run the updates, the kernel source will be updated to its latest official release and your system will always be up to date if you need to recompile the kernel.
I'm A Penguin
10-27-2002, 05:28 PM
Anybody else have an opinon. Come on gurus, help me out!
Lemming
10-27-2002, 05:42 PM
Get the kernel source, especially if u have a NVIDIA graphics card! As already said, some drivers require you to redo the kernel.
If you are installing RedHat 8 from CD you can install the relevent packages at any time via the package manager btw.