diff --git a/examples/build.cfg b/examples/build.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 2dd752729..000000000
--- a/examples/build.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# build script for formilux >0.1.8
-
-PATCH_LIST=
-FILE_LIST=
-
-function do_compile_only {
-    $FLXMAKE CPU_OPTS="-march=$arch -mcpu=$cpu -Os -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -malign-jumps=0" \
-	     TARGET=linux24
-}
-
-function do_prepack {
-    mkdir -p $ROOTDIR/sbin/init.d ; cp examples/init.haproxy.flx0 $ROOTDIR/sbin/init.d/haproxy
-    mkdir -p $ROOTDIR/usr/sbin ; cp haproxy $ROOTDIR/usr/sbin
-    mkdir -p $ROOTDIR/usr/share/examples/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/etc/haproxy/
-    cp examples/haproxy.cfg $ROOTDIR/usr/share/examples/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
-    cp examples/rc.highsock $ROOTDIR/usr/share/examples/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/etc/rc.highsock
-    cp examples/config.rc.haproxy $ROOTDIR/usr/share/examples/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/etc/config.rc.haproxy
-    mkdir -p $ROOTDIR/usr/share/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER
-    cp doc/haproxy.txt $ROOTDIR/usr/share/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER
-    ln -s ../../examples/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER $ROOTDIR/usr/share/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/examples
-    cp examples/debug2ansi examples/debug2html examples/debugfind $ROOTDIR/usr/share/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/
-    set_default_perm $ROOTDIR
-}
diff --git a/examples/config.rc.haproxy b/examples/config.rc.haproxy
deleted file mode 100644
index 534049525..000000000
--- a/examples/config.rc.haproxy
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-service haproxy ext
-	config /etc/haproxy/haproxy-ext.cfg
-
-service haproxy int
-	config /etc/haproxy/haproxy-int.cfg
-
diff --git a/examples/haproxy-1.1.21-flx.1.pkg b/examples/haproxy-1.1.21-flx.1.pkg
deleted file mode 100644
index 8054ffdd8..000000000
--- a/examples/haproxy-1.1.21-flx.1.pkg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-function do_compile {
-    $FLXMAKE COPTS="-march=$arch -mcpu=$cpu -Os -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -malign-jumps=0 -DNETFILTER -DTRANSPARENT"
-}
-
-function do_prepack {
-    mkdir -p $ROOTDIR/sbin/init.d ; cp init.d/haproxy $ROOTDIR/sbin/init.d
-    mkdir -p $ROOTDIR/usr/sbin ; cp haproxy $ROOTDIR/usr/sbin
-    mkdir -p $ROOTDIR/usr/share/examples/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/etc
-    cp examples/haproxy.cfg $ROOTDIR/usr/share/examples/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/etc/haproxy.cfg
-    cp examples/rc.highsock $ROOTDIR/usr/share/examples/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/etc/rc.highsock
-    cp examples/config.rc.haproxy $ROOTDIR/usr/share/examples/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/etc/config.rc.haproxy
-    mkdir -p $ROOTDIR/usr/share/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER
-    cp doc/haproxy.txt $ROOTDIR/usr/share/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER
-    ln -s ../../examples/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER $ROOTDIR/usr/share/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/examples
-    cp examples/debug2ansi examples/debug2html examples/debugfind $ROOTDIR/usr/share/$PKGRADIX/$PKGRADIX-$PKGVER/
-
-    make clean
-}
-
diff --git a/examples/init.haproxy.flx0 b/examples/init.haproxy.flx0
deleted file mode 100644
index a7edd9c08..000000000
--- a/examples/init.haproxy.flx0
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-. `dirname $0`/functions
-
-option	config		standard_option	/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
-option	bin		reserved_option	/usr/sbin/haproxy
-option	cmdline		reserved_option	'$bin -f ${opt_config} -p ${pidfile} -D -q'
-
-function do_help {
-    echo "Usage: ${0##*/} <status|start|stop|help|conf>"
-    echo "List of config.rc options (name, type, default value, current value) :"
-    echo
-    echo "   - config ; def=/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg ; cur=$opt_confdir"
-    echo
-    exit 1 
-}
-
-# reads the configuration file and checks its syntax.
-function do_conf {
-    $bin -c -V -q -f ${opt_config}
-}
-
-# assign default values to options and variables before parsing the cfg file
-function fct_begin_section {
-    pidfile="/var/run/haproxy${2:+-$2}.pid"
-}
-
-load_config
-
diff --git a/examples/linux-2.4.21-40.EL-custom.diff b/examples/linux-2.4.21-40.EL-custom.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index a96c8001a..000000000
--- a/examples/linux-2.4.21-40.EL-custom.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,138 +0,0 @@
-diff -urN linux-2.4.21-40.EL/arch/i386/config.in linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/arch/i386/config.in
---- linux-2.4.21-40.EL/arch/i386/config.in	2006-03-17 09:34:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/arch/i386/config.in	2006-03-17 09:34:42.000000000 +0100
-@@ -380,6 +380,7 @@
- tristate 'Kernel support for MISC binaries' CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC
- 
- bool 'Kernel .config support' CONFIG_IKCONFIG
-+bool 'Support for epoll' CONFIG_EPOLL
- 
- tristate 'System call auditing' CONFIG_AUDIT
- 
-diff -urN linux-2.4.21-40.EL/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
---- linux-2.4.21-40.EL/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S	2006-03-17 09:34:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S	2006-03-17 09:34:42.000000000 +0100
-@@ -816,9 +816,15 @@
- 	.long SYMBOL_NAME(sys_ni_syscall)	/* sys_free_hugepages */
- 	.long SYMBOL_NAME(sys_exit_group)
- 	.long SYMBOL_NAME(sys_lookup_dcookie)
-+#ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL
-+	.long SYMBOL_NAME(sys_epoll_create)
-+	.long SYMBOL_NAME(sys_epoll_ctl)	/* 255 */
-+	.long SYMBOL_NAME(sys_epoll_wait)
-+#else
- 	.long SYMBOL_NAME(sys_ni_syscall)	/* sys_epoll_create */
- 	.long SYMBOL_NAME(sys_ni_syscall)	/* sys_epoll_ctl 255 */
- 	.long SYMBOL_NAME(sys_ni_syscall)	/* sys_epoll_wait */
-+#endif /* CONFIG_EPOLL */
-  	.long sys_remap_file_pages
-  	.long SYMBOL_NAME(sys_set_tid_address)
-  	.long SYMBOL_NAME(sys_ni_syscall)	/* sys_timer_create */
-diff -urN linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-athlon.config linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-athlon.config
---- linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-athlon.config	2006-03-17 09:34:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-athlon.config	2006-03-17 09:34:42.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@
- CONFIG_QUOTA=y
- # CONFIG_QFMT_V1 is not set
- CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
--# CONFIG_EPOLL is not set
-+CONFIG_EPOLL=y
- 
- # CONFIG_QIFACE_COMPAT is not set
- CONFIG_AFS_FS=m
-diff -urN linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-athlon-smp.config linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-athlon-smp.config
---- linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-athlon-smp.config	2006-03-17 09:34:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-athlon-smp.config	2006-03-17 09:34:42.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@
- CONFIG_QUOTA=y
- # CONFIG_QFMT_V1 is not set
- CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
--# CONFIG_EPOLL is not set
-+CONFIG_EPOLL=y
- 
- # CONFIG_QIFACE_COMPAT is not set
- CONFIG_AFS_FS=m
-diff -urN linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i386.config linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i386.config
---- linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i386.config	2006-03-17 09:34:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i386.config	2006-03-17 09:34:42.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@
- CONFIG_QUOTA=y
- # CONFIG_QFMT_V1 is not set
- CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
--# CONFIG_EPOLL is not set
-+CONFIG_EPOLL=y
- 
- # CONFIG_QIFACE_COMPAT is not set
- # CONFIG_AFS_FS is not set
-diff -urN linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i586.config linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i586.config
---- linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i586.config	2006-03-17 09:34:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i586.config	2006-03-17 09:34:42.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@
- CONFIG_QUOTA=y
- # CONFIG_QFMT_V1 is not set
- CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
--# CONFIG_EPOLL is not set
-+CONFIG_EPOLL=y
- 
- # CONFIG_QIFACE_COMPAT is not set
- CONFIG_AFS_FS=m
-diff -urN linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i586-smp.config linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i586-smp.config
---- linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i586-smp.config	2006-03-17 09:34:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i586-smp.config	2006-03-17 09:34:42.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@
- CONFIG_QUOTA=y
- # CONFIG_QFMT_V1 is not set
- CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
--# CONFIG_EPOLL is not set
-+CONFIG_EPOLL=y
- 
- # CONFIG_QIFACE_COMPAT is not set
- CONFIG_AFS_FS=m
-diff -urN linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686.config linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686.config
---- linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686.config	2006-03-17 09:34:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686.config	2006-03-17 09:34:42.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@
- CONFIG_QUOTA=y
- # CONFIG_QFMT_V1 is not set
- CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
--# CONFIG_EPOLL is not set
-+CONFIG_EPOLL=y
- 
- # CONFIG_QIFACE_COMPAT is not set
- CONFIG_AFS_FS=m
-diff -urN linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-hugemem.config linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-hugemem.config
---- linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-hugemem.config	2006-03-17 09:34:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-hugemem.config	2006-03-17 09:34:42.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@
- CONFIG_QUOTA=y
- # CONFIG_QFMT_V1 is not set
- CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
--# CONFIG_EPOLL is not set
-+CONFIG_EPOLL=y
- 
- # CONFIG_QIFACE_COMPAT is not set
- CONFIG_AFS_FS=m
-diff -urN linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-smp.config linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-smp.config
---- linux-2.4.21-40.EL/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-smp.config	2006-03-17 09:34:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-smp.config	2006-03-17 09:34:42.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@
- CONFIG_QUOTA=y
- # CONFIG_QFMT_V1 is not set
- CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
--# CONFIG_EPOLL is not set
-+CONFIG_EPOLL=y
- 
- # CONFIG_QIFACE_COMPAT is not set
- CONFIG_AFS_FS=m
-diff -urN linux-2.4.21-40.EL/Makefile linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/Makefile
---- linux-2.4.21-40.EL/Makefile	2006-03-17 09:34:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ linux-2.4.21-40.EL-epoll/Makefile	2006-03-17 09:34:55.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
- VERSION = 2
- PATCHLEVEL = 4
- SUBLEVEL = 21
--EXTRAVERSION = -40.ELcustom
-+EXTRAVERSION = -40.EL-epoll
- 
- KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
- 
diff --git a/examples/rc.highsock b/examples/rc.highsock
deleted file mode 100644
index d85935af1..000000000
--- a/examples/rc.highsock
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# set this to about 256/4M (16384 for 256M machine)
-MAXFILES=16384
-echo $MAXFILES > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
-ulimit -n $MAXFILES
-
-if [ -e /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max ]; then
-	echo 65536 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max
-fi
-
-if [ -e /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_fin_wait ]; then
-	# 30 seconds for fin, 15 for time wait
-	echo 3000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_fin_wait
-	echo 1500 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_time_wait
-	echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_log_invalid_scale
-	echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_log_out_of_window
-fi
-
-echo 1024 60999 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
-#echo 32768 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_queue_maxlen
-echo 30 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout
-echo 4096 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog
-echo 262144 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_tw_buckets
-echo 262144 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_orphans
-echo 300 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time
-echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle
-echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps
-echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
-echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack
-echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_dsack
-
-# auto-tuned on 2.4
-#echo 262143 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
-#echo 262143 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default
-
-echo 16384 65536 524288 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem
-echo 16384 349520 699040 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
-