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#! rnews 2154 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!feeder.chicago.cic.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!gtnduss1.du.gtn.com!www.punkt.de!not-for-mail From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XTERM Problems Date: 1 Jun 1997 12:36:22 GMT Organization: WEB Internet Services Lines: 34 Message-ID: <01bc6e88$857e8440$f3e94dc2@hugo09.ticsoft.de> References: <5mk5rp$788@nnrp4.farm.idt.net><5mp5no$59p$2@nntp2.ba.best.com> <3390866A.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <5mqs7d$20e$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: hugo09.ticsoft.de X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41988 David May <mayd@chrysanthemum.localdomain> wrote in <5mqs7d$20e$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>... > In article <3390866A.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>, > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > Byron Brummer wrote: > >> ..... > >> Also, maxusers should be set to at least 5 (I do 10). Why the hell > >> this isn't set the GERERIC kernel is beyond me... > > > > GENERIC = GENERIC. Think about the dictionary definition, if you can. > > Is an X desktop with 4 xterms, a netscape and a fancy WM "generic?" No. > > That is not generic, that is a desktop configuration. Is a news server > > with 8 innds running and 6 drives stripped with ccd into a single volume > > generic? No, that is not generic either, that is a USENET news server > > ...... > > The dictionary definition of GENERIC is irrelevent to this. It is > reasonable that the distributed kernel be the one that is useful the > majority of users. I do not have any figures but I would be surprised if > less than 90% of FreeBSD kernels are used in a desktop configuration. Nope. It's absolutely essential for the GENERIC kernel to boot on the widest range of machines possible, to enable people to _install_ FreeBSD in the first place. After installation's complete, you're supposed to build your own kernel anyway. My $.2 Patrick