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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:26417 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3652 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!aplcenmp!netnews.jhuapl.edu!uunet!EU.net!uknet!info!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Message-ID: <CxB48L.8I1@info.swan.ac.uk> Keywords: mosaic term telnet Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk Nntp-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 14:29:08 GMT Lines: 18 In article <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <36djkn$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. The discussion is on sunsite.unc.edu if you can ever get it to work. It is quite amusing. Linux has modules but they are not the same thing as a message passing kernel - nothing like it. Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------''