Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped,/kernel ?]

From: Rob (spamrefuse_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/21/04

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    Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:26:18 +0900
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    Volker wrote:
    > Maxim + all,
    >
    >>
    >> I think that this is good idea which can be adapted for our 6-CURRENT
    >> as well. Disk space is so damn cheap today....
    >>
    >> -Maxim
    >>
    >
    > <2ct>
    > well, that's the same as the M$ people thought ten years back. "Size &
    > price doesn't matter, so let's waste every Meg we could find."
    >
    > Doing it that way in every corner, you'll have a system which requires
    > plenty of Gigs to install in a few years. A debug kernel by default
    > would just be the beginning of a systematic waste.
    >
    > Why do you love BSD? Because it's different? Well, I love my beasty
    > because it installs and runs in small to large size systems. And I love
    > it because it's fast. If you blow up everything, your beasty will get
    > slow, fat and ugly.
    >
    > Personally I would not care about a debugging kernel on my disk but the
    > way poeple think (size doesn't matter, price doesn't matter) it's the
    > very first step into the direction of blowing up everything - because
    > size doesn't matter.
    >
    > Intel & Co will welcome you very friendly because going that way you'll
    > always need the latest computer systems to run your beasty.
    > </2ct>

    I have two Pentium1 PCs happily running 4-Stable.
    I also hope my two little Pentium1 PCs, with small harddisks and minimal
    RAM will be able to cope with future designs of FreeBSD. It's the beauty
    of having a state-of-the-art OS on such an old system, whereas for my M$
    companions the PCs barely can run Windows 98 !!

    R.

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