From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 19:17:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4893137B407 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from community6.interfree.it (community6.interfree.it [213.158.72.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82B6A43FCB for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:17:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it) Received: (qmail 31693 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2003 02:17:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO workstation) (80.104.111.165) by mail.interfree.it with SMTP; 12 Jun 2003 02:17:46 -0000 Message-ID: <009c01c33091$316e4fd0$a56f6850@workstation> From: ".VWV." To: References: <200305260316.08916.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> <20030609115437.M18234@codersluts.net> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 04:17:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: Re: kernels' weight X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 02:17:51 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "sektie" To: ".VWV." ; Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:56 Subject: Re: kernels' weight > > We know Linux is the son of the microkernel Minix. Linux kernel is > > simple and light, but its compilation is complicate, owing to the > > need of a lot of modules, and to the difference between several > > distributions. It is much easier to compile a FreeBSD kernel, even > > if it needs some megabyte more. If we can compress the kernel > > following the instruction on the Dossier books, who cares of its > > original weight? > > Linux kernel simple and light? Are you a fan of the crackpipe? :P > > The linux kernel is still decompressed when it gets loaded into memory. > There isn't really that much of a difference in size. What are you trying to > do? Save disk space? Dude, it's only a few MB. > > Randi > sektie@codersluts.net > http://perlpimp.codersluts.net/ > > I just didn't want to be too much nasty, it is well known I hate penguins and Linus' plaids... Either the boot loader, or the partitioning system, or the kernel compilation and eventual compression for a cd-rom, are a paradise if compared to Linux. Moreover, the drivers' support for the most part of SCSI, ATA, RAID, LAN, is much more complete. As always VITTORI