Re: [cobalt-users] OSRCD (slightly off topic?)

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

GW> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:24:23 -0500
GW> From: Gerald Waugh


GW> It's too bad!
GW> Sun does not support it's customer base!
GW> They should be churning out ISO that are up2date.
GW> And those small '/' and '/var partitions are awful.

Small /var is a problem, I agree.  Small / is not... very little
needs to go there.  IMHO, if it's not needed to get the system
"up and running" and mount /usr (perhaps from the network), it
probably needn't go on the root partition.  In the past, I ran
50 MB / by choice; now I usually use 128 MB.

Frankly, I think a small root partition is a _good_ idea.  It's
much faster to fsck and have a running system in case of
disaster.


GW> I really have better places to put my rexources anyway!
GW> Thanks for the support.

Perhaps it's time for some list members to make their own
appliances.  I know we install packages _much_ sooner than Cobalt
updates are released... and I'm positive the number of systems
is orders of magnitude smaller than the number of Cobalts out
there. ;-)  [i.e., effort/benefit ratio is higher for us.]

I shan't resort to PJ-style Sun bashing, but I will allude to
those thoughts and question Mr. Mcneally's sense of direction...
"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," I suppose.


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