Re:Can it be non-platform specific?  (Score:1)
by gTsiros (205624) Neutral on Monday December 16, @11:45AM (#4895879)

This is way offtopic, but since you ask...
Some months ago, i was about 5minutes from removing my windows partition
altogether since i could do anything under my mandrake setup. It was hard work
to config it to do what i wanted, but it was well worth it. My desktop was so
pretty you could just sit there watching the widgets. I could do development,
multimedia(read "pr0n"), games, sound, younameit. I had E with an aqualike
theme together with the respective gtk-aqua theme. Anyway. I had just gotten a
divx5 encoded movie (FF:TSW) and thought to view it under linux.So i fire up
XINE 0.9...but it said that i need a new plugin to play divx5 content...what
the heck, it's a small glitch anyway...so i go and get the divx5 plugin over my
punny 33.6K line. Some time later, i ./configure the thing, it aborts saying it
needs XINE 0.10...so i say what the heck, and download that too...i ./configure
it and it says i need ALSA2 while i had ALSA1... so i say what the heck, and i
download that too...and i ./configure ALSA2 which aborts saying that i need
linux 2.4.19 while i had 2.4.16orsomething. So i say go to hell, hit reset,
booted to windows and removed the linux partition. Now i am under win2k. At
least it doesn't ask me to rebuild the fucking kernel just to go from divx4 to
divx5.

you asked.

Windows: reboot for the changes to take effect. Linux: Download, compile,
install and reboot with the latest kernel...

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