From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 18 09:37:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01703 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 09:37:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from luomat.peak.org (cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.83.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01695 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 09:37:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luomat@luomat.peak.org) Received: by luomat.peak.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA27806; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 12:37:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199806181637.MAA27806@luomat.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980618064338.007f1100@mx.serv.net> From: Timothy J Luoma Date: Thu, 18 Jun 98 12:37:30 -0400 To: Tim Gerchmez Subject: Re: Major hardware reorganization... cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3.0.5.32.19980618064338.007f1100@mx.serv.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Author: Tim Gerchmez Original-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 06:43:38 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980618064338.007f1100@mx.serv.net> > Win95 is the only OS that supports all my hardware, and for > certain operations is the fastest (it definitely boots the quickest > of the 3 OS's, BSD second, Win NT third) Well Win95 should reboot fast, given all the the times it has to reboot (not a flame, just a fact.... many/most changes under Win95 require a reboot to update the system). BSD does take quite awhile to boot... I wonder how much of it might be trimmed down if a custom kernel was built to the specifics of only what hardware was on the machine. TjL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message