*BSD News Article 36470


Return to BSD News archive

Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:26015 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3602
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate
From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
Date: 2 Oct 1994 22:43:10 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
Lines: 15
Message-ID: <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29
Keywords: mosaic term telnet

In article <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu>, Po-Han Lin <plin@girtab.usc.edu> wrote:
>386bsd is monolithic (controlled I guess), while linux is non-monolithic.

You were misinformed.  Both Linux and the BSD's use monolithic kernels. 
For a fun discussion of this, there is a series of articles were Linus
and Andy Tanenbaum 'discussed' the merits of both of these when Linux
was in it's infancy.


Nate
-- 
nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu     |  FreeBSD core member and all around tech.
nate@cs.montana.edu          |  weenie.
work #: (406) 994-4836       | 
home #: (406) 586-0579       |  Available for contract/otherwise work.