On Tue, April 11, 2017 9:09 pm, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2017-04-11, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> You also don't have the flexibility to replace the kernel. Or glibc.
>
> But you do, don't you? It'll take you months to replace them, or years
> to rewrite, but you *can* do it.
I agree. We had once new machine with 32 bit CPUs and 8GB of RAM - that
time RAM was cheap, but amd664 architecture didn't exist yet,- and
standard kernel only supported 1 GB user space. Not changeable in kernel
config. It took me between one and two weeks to find hardcoded boundaries,
and change them; 3.5 GB for userspace was max I could squeeze leaving the
rest to kernel + stack + ... and still having stable solid system. That
was decent solution.
I wholeheartedly agree with Keith.
Valeri
> That is the freedom that open source
> software provides that proprietary OSes do not; it does not come with
> the additional promise to provide exactly the software you specify.
>
> --keith
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