Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:23:01 +0000 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place. Message-ID: <199706011757.KAA29118@train.tgci.com>
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> > On Sat, 31 May 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > More and more people are trying to use GENERIC as a template for their > > own kernels and they're losing, of course, because generic sets many > > limits (like max children or open files) too low. > > > [snip] > > > Meanwhile, of course, the users continue to use GENERIC (or worse, > > LINT) as their only available guides and they continue to walk off > > cliffs, year after year. > > As a newbie climbing a cliff with broken legs I cound have sworn that LINT was recommended as a template in the docs. [snip] > This sure will save bandwidth on -questions, and many frustrated newbies > from climbing up on walls. > Cliffs, not walls...;-) Why not post a few working templates right now on the web site? > > > > Jordan > > > > Yet another $.02 (I think someone is getting rich here collecting these > cents :-) ). > > Nadav Could someone send me a config for a low to moderate volume web/mail/name server? I'm getting a little nervous. ;-) Thanks, Riley
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