Stupid is as stupid does - no config.gz in Fedora kernels

Everyone noticed that there is an option in the 2.x kernels to publish kernel configuration via config.gz. But the 'open source developers' are not using this feature, making compilation of a custom kernel a nightmare.

Even if one needs a custom kernel just so that it is optimized for the platform, there have to be many changes made to configuration compared to .config shipped with kernel sources to arrive at the functionality of pre-compiled kernels shipped from the repositories. more...

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No Youtube for you, Linux fans!

This is a followup to my earlier post on degradation of Firefox.

Apparently Youtube now requires Flash 10+ to play videos. Flash 10 is not available under Linux at all at the moment, while Flash 9 crashes under Linux Firefox.

The only solution I have is a WinXP virtual machine in VirtualBOX.

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