Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 1997 16:37:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Mastros <> | Subject | Re: Linux (free s/w) support |
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On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Darren Reed wrote: > > Oh, I'm sure everything _does_ get used (by someone!). I don't doubt that > in the slightest. > > btw, I've yet to come across a kernel which required me to live with > "factory defaults". > > Darren
Umm... Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1x, Soloris, SunOS, HP-UX, and any other kernel that dosn't come with source. The features that you don't need/want and are disabled in your kernel config never eat cycles, memory, or disk space. If you don't have source then, at a theoritacal minimum (assuming that those features aren't in modules), they will take up disk space in your kernel image, and will take memory untill they are freed during boot, and will eat cycles to free.
In linux, on the other hand, these features take up only two keypresses ("n\n").
-=- James Mastros
--- "Anybody who thinks that their compiler is smarter than they are probably disagrees with me." -=- Linus Torvalds
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