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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:26356 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3640 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au!netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au!orca1.vic.design.telecom.com.au!picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!eland.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!not-for-mail From: raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Raoul Golan) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Date: 7 Oct 1994 15:34:03 +1000 Organization: Telecom Australia - CSSC Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <372mkb$n0d@eland.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: eland.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au Keywords: mosaic term telnet nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <36djkn$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. I think Po-Han misunderstood what 'monolithic' means. He referred to monolithic as meaning controlled, whereas monolithic - as opposed to microkernel - is really a description of the OS design. Both BSD and Linux are monolithic in this respect. In any case, one has to qualify what is mean by "controlled". Many say that BSD is tightly controlled by the BSD core team, whereas Linux is developed through a loose, uncentralised, group of programmers. My understanding is that anyone can contribute to BSD as well, so that the real difference is that whereas a team decides what goes into BSD, only one person decides what goes into Linux (namely, Linus). Big deal. -- Raoul Golan, Consultant for Object Oriented P/L, at =Those who have put out Intelligent Networks Development, Telecom Australia =the people's eyes Also student at Macquarie Univ. School of History, =despise them for their Philosophy and Politics. EMAIL:raoul@ind.tansu.com.au =blindness. - Milton