Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [HUMOR] Quake 1 source code. | From | Rene Rebe <> | Date | Thu, 23 Dec 1999 23:18:06 +0100 |
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Hello!
Marek Habersack <grendel@vip.net.pl> wrote:
> * Stephen Frost said: > > On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > > Also, it doesn't gunk up the rest of your system if you arn't using it. > > > > So it's not a big deal. > > > > > > But it seems certain people on this list are insistent on removing choices > > > from the users. Optional kernel config? Nope. They dont want you to have > > > it at all. > > > > Erm, no, I got the impression most were trying to not have the kernel > > encompass all of user space... There are lots of things that are very good > > at being modular. This doesn't mean they need to be in the kernel. Would > > you want bash in the kernel? > Of course no, but there are some things that benefit from being put in the > kernel - especially daemons serving huge files - nfsd and httpd for example.
Why not putting !ALL! into Linux Kernel?? From X over Gnome to XEmacs and gcc?? Imagine the performace and stability benefit! ;-)
I'd like to see a (not my!!) Linux box crashing by i.e. loading a currupted font! ;-) (Like NT's do!!)
That is what u like??
> Also, don't forget that sooner or later linux will be used in embedded > systems, very often with limited space for user-space stuff and also > requiring speed and reliability (think of web-manageable switches, hubs, > routers, RAS servers, gasoline distributors etc.) - and most certainly > daemon implemented in the kernel will most certainly be faster and more > reliable than the user-space one (and certainly much smaller). Also, that > one thing or another is in the SOURCES doesn't mean you have to use it. I > won't use khttpd most probably, but I don't mind it being in the sources - > if it's good for some people, it's good for me as well. The key to success > is a CHOICE and FLEXIBILITY, IMHO. > > marek
All a happy new hacking year ;-)
René
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