Re: [Hampshire] Ultimate Linux Media PC?

On 08/03/2009 01:23 PM, Vic wrote:
>> We have DKMS in Ubuntu
>>
>
> ...and everywhere else as well.
>
> DKMS isn't quite as clean as it might be - but it does give the lie to all
> those waily "you've got to recompile the kernel just to use Linux" FUDs...
>
> Vic.
>

Ok, I don't fully understand DKMS, but how does it help when you have
downloaded a source tree from git and compiled and installed the modules
it creates? I thought it only helped if you had installed a proper DKMS
package?