From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 6 9:26:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from warez.scriptkiddie.org (uswest-dsl-142-38.cortland.com [209.162.142.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF19937B41A for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:26:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.69.11] (unknown [192.168.69.11]) by warez.scriptkiddie.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F87E62D01 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:26:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:26:40 -0800 (PST) From: Lamont Granquist To: Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? In-Reply-To: <20011206081059.A58740@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Message-ID: <20011206092430.O38549-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:15:30PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > and ordinary user will find FreeBSD is slower, could we let user to > > > select which kernel to install at installing time? > > > > It's a possibility that I've considered, given that sysinstall > > had a hard time supporting installing FreeBSD from a single CDROM > > image to support both developers and the end product with a single > > "golden" system image. > > > > The problem with doing this is that it sort of grates against the > > idea of a "GENERIC" entirely. > > The problem with GENERIC is it is the lowest common denominator. > While it's really cool we can still boot on a 386 with 4 meg of > RAM, making the compromises to make that happen is not terribly > useful. An alternative solution that i haven't read anyone suggest on this thread is simply to improve man tuning(7) and make people more aware of it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message