From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 22 23:52:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251EA16A402 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:52:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dhaishin@yahoo.com) Received: from web31513.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31513.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACE9843D45 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:52:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dhaishin@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 30719 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Apr 2006 23:52:45 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=wCUsXdnYkTerwNvozI6BOwmsaSI0dMrVWl6XdYnxEdx8uvIya4VQOLyFMZp61VBqYSfP1i8XNNzs0mBSDT7VtIvAl+EnREfgqAp53pyofZwVe0jXNV4Q8ouYdqCgDfimfNzDWAeF41ZmDt9GXzTgs6xuRwhZgUrGyCYV3rQxDto= ; Message-ID: <20060422235245.30717.qmail@web31513.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.164.145.198] by web31513.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:52:45 PDT Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:52:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Carton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Custom Kernel questions... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:52:46 -0000 While I am not exactly new to FreeBSD or other *nix variants, I choose to use FreeBSD because of its blazing performance, especially on older, slower machines. Yet, I also wish to strip that kernel to squeeze out every bit of usable power I can. My delving into kernel customizing with FreeBSD has been realativly short, and for the most part error free, but in comparison to Linux, it seems to offer fewer customizing options. More specificly, many of my machines are being setup as servers, and thusly have no need of many services such as sound drivers, yet it appears that I see code for them passing by the screen as I configure and compile. Has anyone here delved deeper into the configuration of the kernel, are there more options is other files aside from the main configuration file? Andrew --------------------------------- Celebrate Earth Day everyday! Discover 10 things you can do to help slow climate change. Yahoo! Earth Day