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From: fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk)
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 21:42:08 -0400
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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

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: Woody Jin