From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 5 17:09:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09257 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terror.hungry.com (terror.hungry.com [199.181.107.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA09189 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:09:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fn@hungry.com) Received: (qmail 8582 invoked by uid 507); 6 Oct 1998 00:08:54 -0000 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Magazine 10/20/1998 Article about FreeBSD References: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F2FF@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> From: Faried Nawaz <__undead@LISP-READER.Hungry.COM> Date: 05 Oct 1998 17:08:53 -0700 In-Reply-To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no's message of 5 Oct 1998 16:30:47 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 11 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.16 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Perhaps we need a set of 'GENERIC'-like kernels sitting on an ftp server somewhere that are optimized for different tasks. After the user has selected the distributions to install, sysinstall could ask them if the machine is going to be used as a mailhost/webserver/whatever, and install the appropriate kernel. To be really effective, we need something like a kernel link kit that has a few .o or .a files that generates a working kernel -- like the XFree86 server link kit. Perhaps ELF will help with that... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message