Because Window$ are popular for their Publishing. Resulting give their Market grow up

Compile the kernel for Gentoo: sure, this is the idea.
Compile the kernel for Slackware: it can be interesting to do
Compile the kernel for Debian: yeah.. why not?

BUT WHO THE HELL COMPILE THEIR KERNEL FOR MANDRAKE????

can someone tell me why big software companys are not writting for linux?, why don’t they start making linux versions of their software and sellling it as they would windows? as soon as this happens im moving to linux, please tell me someone as I have spent 2 hours googling and cant find out, reply to this comment!. thanks in advanced.

pretty good, tells you how very well. SO OLD! But still applies. We’re on 2.6.27.10 by now….

linux works like your fridge! cool inside, and this is the most natural thing.
to compile a kernel needs lots of more things you must know. ive done it! 1 week mind-quest to configure it, and i can give you an advice: to learn it needs time at once, but using windows paltform means you must fix it again, and again, whitch means more time.

‘hair’ and ‘hardly explains anything’

but if your buying it of ebay its got going to support the distribution to support the distribution get a copy off the red hat website but I got a free copy of Kubuntu and Ubuntu sent to my home 4 free

#1 support the distribution by buying

#2 slow internet and lazy to download

I miss TechTV Q.Q

oh, i see! i misunderstood you earlier but , yes, true true

mmmm in opensuse, fedora and many distros (rpm based) you can just download the newest kernell in RPM format and just install it whitout compile it… thats my point. sorry if i wasn’t clear before.

there’s no ISO of kernel.. there are ISO images of distros but not kernel

you dont download the source code… you can download an ISO copy, and just burn it, and install it.. ther are many distros redhat(fedora free), opensuse, ubuntu, etc…

yes, download the source code then compile it

I THOUGHT that guy on the left kind of looked like a golem.

jst download it

Mandrake, Nowdays known as Mandriva

you bought a copy of linux y? its free from the website?????

proprio un americagata

that guys some kind of super geek, built from parts of lesser geeks

6.1 is very old

Commercial Linux: support, documentation, good packaging, no spending time downloading.

Plus you support the companies who are, you know, working on linux?

I just bought red hat 6.1 off of ebay and its still Kernal 2.0.4

Is it a redhat linux?

What did he say when everybody got quiet?