Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:35:47 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "m p" <sumirati@yahoo.de>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Multi-processor Support Message-ID: <008c01c1688c$946e6ee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20011108105102.55942.qmail@web13308.mail.yahoo.com>
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m p writes: > What is your experience with FreeBSD? > Beginner? Ok. All kernels are the same in this respect. That's why they are called kernels. Mess up the kernel, and the system won't run, by definition. > Have you recompiled your kernel yet? Yes, I recompiled it this afternoon in order to disable Ctrl-Alt-Del. > Do you know _why_ most of the FreeBSD people > use customized kernels? Because much of what they want to do apparently cannot be enabled by simple configuration switches at run-time (such as the change I desired above). > Why do you speak up about a topic in an OS you > don't know much about? I know quite a bit about operating systems. > _Where_ is the problem? You know it when you see it, usually when you have to jump out of bed and rush down to the computer center at 3 AM. Been there, done that, no desire to do it again. > This is considered a normal and not risky task > with FreeBSD. If it is just changing a configuration option, the risk probably isn't too great. But sometimes you don't really know until the system crashes. And, sorry, but FreeBSD is not magically immune to this; no operating system is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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