Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Stupidification Of systemd Haters Date: 12 May 2026 22:19:42 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <18ae97fc33e48f9d$12583$2923323$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10ttm9k$1g1he$6@dont-email.me> <10tvbbj$1vrb3$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net JrY0IT4LM3/75Yc45AbwGwe/c1ihxXfNRmHLxGi4r0/fI69IDE Cancel-Lock: sha1:Lm7exxSEYBmMFrbheDuL8/Sxl9E= sha256:wDFToz+bcjcaGbQ3SH7dngRmVwvxxV2X5oQeQb7m5XA= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86533 On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:52:51 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote: > I used to build my own kernels, but this was back in the days of systems > with 512MB of total RAM and i586 class CPU's running at 150-200Mhz. > Back in those days it /felt/ like there was a speedup by building the > kernel against the specific CPU one had in one's box, and with the 512MB > RAM days, there *was* a benefit of stripping out drivers that one did > not use, > as a smaller kernel left more RAM available for one's applications. It's been a long, long time but iirc you could also screw yourself royally if you said 'I don't need that' for some obscure feature that you definitely did need.