Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 1 May 1996 19:06:44 +1000 (EST) | From | Matt Hawkins <> | Subject | Re: dropping kerneld... |
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I couldn't believe some of the posts in this thread.
One guy wanted it out because he couldn't get his computers to boot and blamed kerneld for it....and as someone else pointed out he had forgotten to load arpd (or something like that) so basically it's his fault his computers didn't boot.
Someone else came up with the rather ignorant and arrogant statement "get more ram". Here's a free clue bus ticket - more RAM costs money. Some of us don't have that kind of money. It's not from lack of want that we don't max out the motherboard with as much RAM as can fit. Some of us just don't have $60,000+ jobs where we can write off ram for our personal machines as a work expense on our tax returns.
I'm trying to avoid flaming here - because I'm quite irate.
If you don't want kerneld, DON'T PICK THAT OPTION. Many more _do_ want it. I don't want SCSI support in my kernel, so how about I propose we remove SCSI support from all kernels from now on? How about networking support - I'm sure some people don't want that, or have had problems with it, so let's remove networking support from the kernel! Here's an idea, how about we just remove the entire kernel? That way no-one can complain about support for things they don't want/need.
Furthermore, if you've had problems compiling or using the kernel modules package, stiff! It's YOUR PROBLEM - either find a solution or don't use the package. Just because _you_ have had problems is still no reason to remove kernel support for something - many people are using it happily with no probs. Heck, you might put your two brain cells together and maybe find out a way of contacting them and ask for assistance?
VOTE 1 kerneld/module support!
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-- Matt matt@blitzen.canberra.edu.au
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