Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4?

[Lamont Granquist]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:15:30PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > and ordinary user will find FreeBSD is slower, could we let user to
> > > select which kernel to install at installing time?
> >
> > It's a possibility that I've considered, given that sysinstall
> > had a hard time supporting installing FreeBSD from a single CDROM
> > image to support both developers and the end product with a single
> > "golden" system image.
> >
> > The problem with doing this is that it sort of grates against the
> > idea of a "GENERIC" entirely.
>
> The problem with GENERIC is it is the lowest common denominator.
> While it's really cool we can still boot on a 386 with 4 meg of
> RAM, making the compromises to make that happen is not terribly
> useful.

An alternative solution that i haven't read anyone suggest on this thread
is simply to improve man tuning(7) and make people more aware of it.


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