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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
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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