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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:26311 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3633 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!gmi!zombie.ncsc.mil!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Date: 6 Oct 1994 20:03:40 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 17 Message-ID: <371l6s$r63@masala.cc.uh.edu> References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu Keywords: mosaic term telnet In article <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >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. BTW, I have a question. Compiling FreeBSD kernel in 386 is much faster than compiling Linux kernel in 486 with twice memory. I found that Linux compiles everything whatever options I choose. Am I doing something wrong, or is it the feature of Linux ? -- Woody Jin