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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!longacre.demon.co.uk From: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk (Michael Searle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Some questions ... Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:07:10 BST Lines: 25 Message-ID: <nC4752813@longacre.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS I am a new FreeBSD user (1 week), also new to Unix and PCs. I know that there are several different shells used with FreeBSD, but not which I should be using. At the moment I am using csh, although most scripts that I have seen use sh, but there are also sh, bash, zsh, tcsh and probably others on the CD. Or does it depend on what I am going to do? I also heard here that most PC magazines are M$ only, can anyone recommend a good one? Also, I have just semisuccessfully rebuilt my kernel (no errors, it boots, it runs, it's 400k smaller, it's faster booting, but I haven't got it to recognise the Soundblaster yet.) When I get a fully working kernel, is it possible to use pgcc to build a faster version? (I have a P166.) I have heard that up to 20% increases in system speed are possible, and that the kernel has been successfully compiled using it, but also reports of bugs and it being no faster than gcc. Does anyone know about this? One more question. The kernel I now have has 'options COMPAT_LINUX', so I should be able to load linux_mod to give Linux binary compatibility. Problem - when I do 'modload /lkm/linux_mod.o', I get the error "Undefined entry symbol '_xxxinit'". Does this module need a different entry point? Thanks! -- Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk