Can recompiling your kernel lead to speed improvements

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On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, David Bandel wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> And that's as it should be for root -- the system does what you tell it to do.
>
> Have you ever seen the surprised look on an admin's face when he's
> suddenly on a box without the rm and mv aliased?  Personally, I detest
> surprises.  And training admins to _rely_ on the fact that the distro
> has aliased rm and mv is setting them up for a very nasty surprise on
> a non-RH system.  RH fosters bad admin habits and I don't like it.
> root should never have any commands aliased as something else, but
> that's just my opinion and worth exactly what you paid for it.  But in
> my book, it's a very bad idea to train admins to rely on a safety net
> that's artificial and won't exist on other systems.

Its not just Redhat.  SuSE does that for ls (its aliased to 'ls -a'), plus 
a few other commands which I forget at the moment.

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