Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:55:34 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Message-ID: <199607101655.JAA00383@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 10 Jul 96 09:32:06 %2B0200. <199607100732.JAA09316@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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>As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> After speaking with David on the phone, I decided to remove the
>> following entries from GENERIC:
>Only two arguments here:
>. GENERIC is known to run on many installed machines, and while you
> are right that it is possible (and desirable) to compile your kernel
> from scratch once you are installed, many people decide not to do
> it, for various reasons. (Among them, you have to sacrify 20 MB of
> space for a kernel compilation, which is far too much for someone
> with only a 100 MB disk.)
Maybe I have a bad attitude, but... This is Unix. If they can't or
don't want to build their own kernel, they should be running Windows
or OS/2.
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