Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:41:08 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Peter Kieser <pfak@telus.net> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Message-ID: <20021222174108.GD16833@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <000c01c2a98e$fcd590a0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> References: <20021221231417.GB32071@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <001101c2a948$2034b5e0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <000c01c2a98e$fcd590a0$c601a8c0@silverdollar>
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On 2002-12-21 23:51, Peter Kieser <pfak@telus.net> wrote: > On the other hand, my favourite feature of FreeBSD is the Kernel > Configuration, it has a nice GENERIC kernel, as Linux does not.. That's nice indeed. I like the way that the kernel is configured in the BSD world a whole lot better. I find it a lot easier to edit a simple text file, comment this here, uncomment that elsewhere, than the `Linux wway' which seems to involve a lot of struggling with menu options (at least, the last time I checked). > Where all the hardware you would probably need is in the > configuration file already, also even if you have everything in the > kernel is really not all that bloated. This is not really very true, I'm afraid. The FreeBSD kernel takes more disk space in most cases. The memory footprint is something I'm not fit to talk about. But I can see the following: freebsd5 % ls -l /boot/kernel/kernel -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3076790 Dec 22 02:30 /boot/kernel/kernel linux-2.4.17 % ls -l /boot/kernel -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 733501 Feb 2 2002 kernel The file sizes are very different. Of course, this depends on the configuration of the kernels, and this particular Linux kernel is trimmed down for efficiency (it needs to be able to support an IRC server), but the kernel files are more or less of the same size as most of the kernels I've seen on these two platforms. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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