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1.
 > reinvention, reengineering, mutation, and original design are all good 
things and easily accomplished when GPL'd
 > software is the basis.

Biological evolution produces things that survive, not things that are 
necessarily "good". There are some pretty ugly animals out there. Just 
because someone designs something doesn't mean that it is well-designed, 
and if it becomes part of the system, it may eventually get fixed up, but 
if there is no standard of excellence, no schedule, and multiple 
duplication of effort you just end up with a leaderless bunch of hackers 
having fun.

2. I am terrifically annoyed about the fact that I built a box just for 
Linux, installed Red Hat 8.0, can go online, etc. But I did this so I could 
learn about how the kernel works by playing around with it, so I have to be 
able to recompile it. So, I recompiled it, and the new entry appears in 
GRUB, but that just stalls with the message:

"EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,1)): ext 2_read_super: mounting ext3 
filesystem as ext2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 system) read only.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 108 k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."

I have put this message to at least half a dozen "gurus" and "experts" and 
I have done grep and locate all over my system, trying to find out the 
exact cause (insofar as it can be determined) of this particular message. 
(I used grep
because I thought I would try to find the sourcecode that produces the 
message.) Nobody seems to be able to tell me the exact meaning of this 
message, and the exact thing to do to get rid of it. I am not interested in 
going Debian or something else. I want to know what is going on from an 
authority who can explain every line of this message. Not being able to 
find an authority leaves me very annoyed.

EDC