From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 30 19:46:41 1997 Return-Path: <owner-hackers> Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00684 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00591 for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from X2296 (ppp6569.on.sympatico.ca [206.172.208.161]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id QAA08258 for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 16:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by X2296 (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA00207; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:08:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:08:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <tim@X2296> Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, julian@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Continual Education (was Re: A Desparate Plea) In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970429224020.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970430190113.172B-100000@X2296> X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2 X-Mailer: Pine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote: [...] > interface to it to compete with linux make xconfig), why bother with LKM's? > Especially when they do not to load/unload in a friendly manner. > With memory prices being what they are, a ``huge'' kernel will cost about > $8.00 more than a tiny one. Ebmedded systems? commercial non-source > products? They're also nice for people who don't have the hdd space to compile kernels... -- tIM...HOEk Whoever told you I had a .signature was lying.