From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 12 19:28:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA01855 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 19:28:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from up8.univ-paris8.fr (up8.univ-paris8.fr [193.54.155.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01844 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 19:28:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from gna.gna.org (gna.mime.univ-paris8.fr [193.54.153.26]) by up8.univ-paris8.fr (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id EAA14791; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:21:26 +0100 Received: (from uufreega@localhost) by gna.gna.org (8.6.10/8.6.12) with UUCP id EAA23475; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:05:17 +0100 Received: from freegate by freegate.gna.org (senmail 8.6.12/9.0). id CAA01835 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 02:56:42 +0100 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 02:56:42 +0100 (MET) From: Alain Brauner To: Lars Gerhard Kuehl cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pageable kernel? [was: PnP Proposal] In-Reply-To: <9601111334.AA03265@elbe.desy.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Bonjour, On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Lars Gerhard Kuehl wrote: [ About very very sofisticated kernel ] ... > A nightmare, it has been one of the most important reasons that I've > changed to FreeBSD and switched back to SunOS on our Sparc boxes. > You're not alone ... > FreeBSD is adult and doesn't need to follow every fashion. > The kernel size isn't really an issue well say up to two or > three MB. I completely agree, please, keep it simple . The 'commercial' fashion is to increase system complexity. The result tends to increase vendor dependance (that's what we are fighting against !). FreeBSD has the word free on it, isn't it ? I prefere FreeBSD because it's PnW ( Plug And Work ) :) We already have : 386BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mach4lite, OpenBSD & ( BSDI ), I guess it's far enought, don't you think so ? Anyway, i thank you all for your wonderfull work. Sinceres salutions. -*- FreeBSD: Alain Brauner: alainb@freegate.gna.org St DENIS 93200 France