Linux fanbois are annoying.  So are OpenBSD fanbois.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <

girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16:30:50 Mar 27, Ross Cameron wrote:

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> > Basically I want to strip the system down as much as possible,

> > practically nothing would be good.

> > My GNU/Linux appliances ran on a 4MB system image.

> >

>

> Please don't insult OpenBSD by comparing with linux. ;)

>

> Have you ever seen the source code of OpenBSD kernel?

>

> Have you considered how the kernel build system is organized?

>

> Have you seen the linux kernel source?

>

> What do you mean by "practically nothing would be good"?

>

> And oh by the way OpenBSD is not a kernel, it is an operating system and

> many people still dunno the difference between the two.

>

> You have the choice of putting "practically nothing" by choosing only

> those distributions you want in the install stage.

>

> Another thing you could do is take a look at crunchgen(1).

>

> # cd /usr/src/distrib/crunch

>

> # make

>

> # make install

>

> man crunchgen

>

> It is only because linux kernel is so "modular" (laugh) that people want

> to

> build their own kernel. And to tell you honestly I still dunno how to

> compile and install a linux kernel. And it varies between distros to

> make things worse.

>

> And it is easier to compile an OpenBSD kernel than to compile a linux

> userland app.

>

> Please don't retrofit OpenBSD to fit into the linux mould. It is

> unfortunate that such garbage like linux is so popular.

>

> I guess people do not read the kernel source.

>

> But the world always had more fools than smart people...

>

> -Girish

>

>

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