From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hnknp-0000XN-Q8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:22:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4F0KqBU026303; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:20:52 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4F0GUec021530 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:16:30 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 May 2007 00:16:30 -0000 Received: from e176227023.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO brmbr.moo) [85.176.227.23] by mail.gmx.net (mp055) with SMTP; 15 May 2007 02:16:30 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14782887 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/7KFdY1UP77HK+bPPNV1uPBkScLJlKFtbW+wEMav vINXWaAS9wnJO/ Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 04:16:24 +0200 From: "Aleksandar L. Dimitrov" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel Message-ID: <20070515041624.67e1e2e5@brmbr.moo> In-Reply-To: <20070514221604.50cf69f4@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <49bf44f10705140848n41d13c0cy5225964032ecb480@mail.gmail.com> <200705141809.37504.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <20070515003757.2d8a5999@brmbr.moo> <20070514221604.50cf69f4@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Organization: SfS =?UTF-8?B?VW5pdmVyc2l0w6R0IFTDvGJpbmdlbg==?= X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 8e9f5437-463a-49af-b9fd-9557bda38899 X-Archives-Hash: 9bd3d158bdefba2def72673e07ec593f On Mon, 14 May 2007 22:16:04 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007 00:37:57 +0200, Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: > > > Gentoo is actually all about keeping all of the stuff as minimal as > > possible ;) > > Gentoo is all about doing what you want, not what other people think > you should do. It doesn't matter whether you want all modules, all > in-kernel, every module built or a compromise, it's up to you. > > Well, OK, I should probably add a 'for me' next time. Still, the guy asked about opinions - and my opinion I gave. Nothing more: In my opinion keeping stuff simple and slim on the kernel side means reliability and performance. This is an opinion formed by the (admittedly limited) experience I got so far. Regards, Aleks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list