From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 11:36:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50CF537B41A for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:36:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fA8JZCi55395; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:35:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <008c01c1688c$946e6ee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "m p" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20011108105102.55942.qmail@web13308.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Multi-processor Support Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:35:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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