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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:26360 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3644 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.dell.com!tadpole.com!uunet!spcuna!j51.com!j51.com!not-for-mail From: fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 6 Oct 1994 21:42:08 -0400 Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <37291g$mc4@j51.com> References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <371l6s$r63@masala.cc.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.j51.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Woody Jin (wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu) wrote: : 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 ? You cannot compare apple with orange. Try to compile the same source code with the same gcc release. NH : -- : Woody Jin