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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
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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