> >> This is why I miss RedHat. I don't want to spend my time customizing > >> a kernel then spending more time with trial and error getting just the > >> kernel I need. RedHat has a system in place that installs a minimal > >> kernal and then loads almost everything else as modules. Genkernel almost > >> does what I want but it is always a struggle. The base system always > >> loads all the different disk drivers and does not unload the unused ones. > > > > Absence of autounloading is not a property of gentoo, but of recent kernels. > > Somewhere along Linux people decided that unloading unused modules is not > > that useful :( > > > > Am I right, actually ? > > I really don't see the point of going to that much trouble to save a few > Kbs of RAM
General custom to be tidy is a second nature for some. > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics Associate Professor University of Alberta tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA -- [email protected] mailing list
