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

[Maxim Sobolev]

Rob wrote:
> Volker wrote:
> 
>> 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>
> 
> 
> I have two Pentium1 PCs happily running 4-Stable.
> I also hope my two little Pentium1 PCs, with small harddisks and minimal
> RAM will be able to cope with future designs of FreeBSD. It's the beauty
> of having a state-of-the-art OS on such an old system, whereas for my M$
> companions the PCs barely can run Windows 98 !!

C'mon guys, nobody says it should be unconditional. Of course there 
should be an easy, well-documented way to turn it off in situations when 
the space really matters.

-Maxim