FLAME____ Why is the kernel source not included

[Andrey Andreev]

Ken Johanson wrote:
> Answer not needed, I'm keenly aware of the politics behind this.
> 
> But I'd forgotten about this "issue" and spent my time trying out what I 
> though must be a viable distro...
> 
> But since it didnt detect my DGE-530 NIC, and the drivers that Dlink 
> kindly provides need to be compiled, I'm SCREWED by the politics because 
> a bunch of headers and fundamantal-to-any-Linux kernel source is not 
> installed. Thats right, the most rudimentary component of the system 
> besides the kernel itslef, not placed in /usr/src/linux. Flame*Nuclear.
> 
> And it doesnt exist as an option under the add-remove app's so called.. 
> but FAR FROM complete.. "developent tools" section either.
> 
> Be giving Suse, Mandrake, etc another look. No time for Redhat games.
> 
> -PS anyone who wants to waste keytrokes telling me that *I* should 
> research some Redhat specific way of getting the kernel - even if its 
> obtusely hidden on a disk... dont bother.

This thread shall be prefixed [AUTOFLAME] ot [TROLL]
:)

\\Andro

PS: I DO have better things to do on the weekend, I just party at my 
work desk now. Really...

-- 
Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science