Can recompiling your kernel lead to speed improvements

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 08:14 -0500, David Bandel wrote:

> No distro will give you everything exactly how you want it unless it
> is the one you learned on and so is the only way you expect things to
> be.  Personally, of the hundreds of distros out there, none behaves as
> I expect it to (my first UNIX OSs were SUNOS 1 and Ultrix).  RH
> "protects" admins by aliasing rm and mv to run with the -i (which
> annoys the devil out of me), etc., etc., distro by distro, including
> all the ones I run daily.  Use what you like, modify what you don't
> like.  And don't expect any distro to be exactly what you want out of
> the box unless you build one yourself.
> 
> > </rant>
Jeeez... RH has been doing that since forever. rm and mv are kinda
dangerous in that Linux will do just what you tell it to do. It thinks
you know what you are doing. <shudders> Ric