Jon wrote: >> I usually name the kernel to the machine hostname, but you can give it >> any name. Edit the kernel config file: >> >> Remove any hardware related options that are not relevant to your >> machine. >> > http://www.muine.org/~hoang/openpf.html#customize > > Why would someone want to do this? Is this nothing more than saving a > negligible amount of memory?
The biggest reasons to do this are because you have too much time on your hands, and you want to impress people by having things break, then you swoop in to rescue everyone from your fabricated disaster. See, computers are supposed to be unreliable and impossible to understand and take lots of effort just to keep running and such. If they Just Work, you haven't proven anything other than your skill at careful design and planning, People don't appreciate that, they much prefer to see you in action. Heroes rescue people from obvious danger, they don't avoid problems proactively. Hey, if you gotta encourage them out onto the ledge so you can be a hero, whatever. Fortunately, most computer people would rather be fighting with existing computer systems than planning avoiding future problems or documenting things. After all, it's not the quality of job that counts, it's the effort people see you putting into it. Any fool can put up a website and say anything they want. Just because you saw it on the 'net doesn't make it true. After that crap of an introduction, I'm not going to bother reading the rest of what this person has to say. See FAQ5 for the official line on this topic. (alternate response: a few k here, a few k there, soon you are still talking about nothing of significance...) Nick.
