[Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped,/kernel ?]

[Volker]

Maxim + all,

> 
> I think that this is good idea which can be adapted for our 6-CURRENT as 
> well. Disk space is so damn cheap today....
> 
> -Maxim
> 

<2ct>
well, that's the same as the M$ people thought ten years back. "Size & 
price doesn't matter, so let's waste every Meg we could find."

Doing it that way in every corner, you'll have a system which requires 
plenty of Gigs to install in a few years. A debug kernel by default 
would just be the beginning of a systematic waste.

Why do you love BSD? Because it's different? Well, I love my beasty 
because it installs and runs in small to large size systems. And I love 
it because it's fast. If you blow up everything, your beasty will get 
slow, fat and ugly.

Personally I would not care about a debugging kernel on my disk but the 
way poeple think (size doesn't matter, price doesn't matter) it's the 
very first step into the direction of blowing up everything - because 
size doesn't matter.

Intel & Co will welcome you very friendly because going that way you'll 
always need the latest computer systems to run your beasty.
</2ct>

Volker

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