Rob wrote: > Volker wrote: > >> Maxim + all, >> >>> >>> I think that this is good idea which can be adapted for our 6-CURRENT >>> as well. Disk space is so damn cheap today.... >>> >>> -Maxim >>> >> >> <2ct> >> well, that's the same as the M$ people thought ten years back. "Size & >> price doesn't matter, so let's waste every Meg we could find." >> >> Doing it that way in every corner, you'll have a system which requires >> plenty of Gigs to install in a few years. A debug kernel by default >> would just be the beginning of a systematic waste. >> >> Why do you love BSD? Because it's different? Well, I love my beasty >> because it installs and runs in small to large size systems. And I >> love it because it's fast. If you blow up everything, your beasty will >> get slow, fat and ugly. >> >> Personally I would not care about a debugging kernel on my disk but >> the way poeple think (size doesn't matter, price doesn't matter) it's >> the very first step into the direction of blowing up everything - >> because size doesn't matter. >> >> Intel & Co will welcome you very friendly because going that way >> you'll always need the latest computer systems to run your beasty. >> </2ct> > > > I have two Pentium1 PCs happily running 4-Stable. > I also hope my two little Pentium1 PCs, with small harddisks and minimal > RAM will be able to cope with future designs of FreeBSD. It's the beauty > of having a state-of-the-art OS on such an old system, whereas for my M$ > companions the PCs barely can run Windows 98 !! C'mon guys, nobody says it should be unconditional. Of course there should be an easy, well-documented way to turn it off in situations when the space really matters. -MaximReceived on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 06:17:24 UTC
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