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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!miwok!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 4 Dec 1995 20:30:27 GMT Organization: TLGnet Inc., (formerly The Little Garden) Lines: 18 Message-ID: <49vlp3$jqv@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49k0dd$pfg@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <49ksgl$2pit@ns4-1.CC.Lehigh.EDU> <nelsoni.817779588@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> <49mkc8$13e@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) X-URL: news:49mkc8$13e@dyson.iquest.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29827 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10112 comp.unix.advocacy:11969 comp.unix.misc:19962 root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) wrote: >In article <nelsoni.817779588@rintintin.Colorado.EDU>, >Ian S. Nelson <nelsoni@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> wrote: >> >>I guess a third problem with this is that recompiling the kernel isn't seen by >>everybody as an okay thing to do. Commercial unixi are starting to move >FreeBSD has been working towards a "config-less" or almost "config-less" system. >One of the goals is that more normal end-users will not need to recompile. So >FreeBSD is working to keep up with that trend and make it a *serious* >technological and ease of use contender with other the os'es. > Being, and old timer on *BSD systems , I get confused sometimes when I hack on a loadable module. I forget that I am really hacking on a kernel 8) Enjoy, Amancio