*BSD News Article 26232


Return to BSD News archive

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