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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Great Expectation Message-ID: <hastyCJsq0r.Er4@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <JmcZFc1w165w@oasys.pc.my> <1994Jan17.195132.14898@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 22:48:26 GMT Lines: 28 In article <1994Jan17.195132.14898@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca writes: >In article JmcZFc1w165w@oasys.pc.my, othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad) writes: >> 386 BSD and Linux which comes with sources codes, can be configured to be any >> size you want it to be. >> FreeBSD uses more memory because it has extras in its kernel, like >> DOS file system, which I do not like, >> because mtools can substitute it nicely. > >So take `options PCFS' out of your FreeBSD kernel configuration file >and build a new kernel. Not sure how to deal with this fix configuration mind set. Guess people expect the same rigid configuration from large OS companies. I guess we are introducing a new way at looking at os distributions, fully configurable by the end user :-) Happy hacking and I sure am having fun with my system! Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X