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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.