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>> This is why I miss RedHat. I don't want to spend my time customizing |
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>> a kernel then spending more time with trial and error getting just the |
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>> kernel I need. RedHat has a system in place that installs a minimal |
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>> kernal and then loads almost everything else as modules. Genkernel almost |
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>> does what I want but it is always a struggle. The base system always |
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>> loads all the different disk drivers and does not unload the unused ones. |
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> Absence of autounloading is not a property of gentoo, but of recent kernels. |
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> Somewhere along Linux people decided that unloading unused modules is not |
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> that useful :( |
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> Am I right, actually ? |
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I really don't see the point of going to that much trouble to save a few |
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Kbs of RAM |
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