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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 06:03:21 GMT
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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.
>
>
>Nate

Actually, as I understand it, this was not what the poster was talkign 
about.  From his parenthetical statement, I think he's referring to the 
fact that Linux is being developed openly by a large group, while FreeBSD 
is controlled and dvevloped by one fairly closed group.  (I don't know if 
thsi is true, BTW., I've just heard thsi claim before.)

I think the poster just misused the term 'monolithic', though I coudl be 
wrong...

Jeff Kesselman