Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:44:09 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sys Admin article on Linux emulation Message-ID: <385F4BE9.8177D2AC@scc.nl> References: <E120E3D-0001oJ-00@rip.psg.com>, <Pine.GSO.4.20.9912210238280.14949-100000@alphard.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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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
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