Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:26:18 +0900 From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped,/kernel ?] Message-ID: <4177568A.1040502@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <417748F2.3060506@vwsoft.com> References: <20041020170115.EDCD016A4EF@hub.freebsd.org> <417748F2.3060506@vwsoft.com>
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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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