From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 21 1:53:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scc.nl (node1374.a2000.nl [62.108.19.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225FD153C7 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 01:53:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@scc.nl) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA26908 for stable@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:44:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by dwarf.hq.scc.nl with netnews for stable@FreeBSD.org (stable@FreeBSD.org) To: stable@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:44:09 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <385F4BE9.8177D2AC@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: , Subject: Re: Sys Admin article on Linux emulation Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Randy Bush wrote: > >> options USER_LDT #allow user-level control of i386 ldt > > is the last one really needed for stuff such as staroffice? > > It's need for Wine, for example. > > (BTW, why isn't that supported out-of-the-box?) One reason is that a GENERIC kernel is "optimized" to support the widest range of devices and can't grow any bigger. This means that anything not important for installation gets removed in favor for device drivers. More reasons exist, which are probably more emotionally sensitive so I won't go into that :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message