From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 00:08:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4EAF106566B for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:08:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218D08FC13 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:08:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KNclp-0007KY-Ur for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:08:53 +0000 Received: from 89-172-59-21.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([89.172.59.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:08:53 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 89-172-59-21.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:08:53 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:08:40 +0200 Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: <488E4027.6070807@telenix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig980478A284ECF9BAAF5736BF" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89-172-59-21.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: <488E4027.6070807@telenix.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Sender: news Subject: Re: Component-based Operating System. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:08:56 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig980478A284ECF9BAAF5736BF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chuck Robey wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Juan Carlos Villalobos wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am writing a paper on Component-based Operating Systems. I just >>> wanted to know if FreeBSD is an Operating System engineered based on >>> Components. >>> >>> I appreciate your input on this. >> "Components" is a wide, wide term. Since FreeBSD as an operating syste= m >> consists of separate libraries, headers, executables, and both the >> kernel and the userland have subsystems that are more-or-less autonomi= c >> and independent, you could say it's componentized. You need to be more= >> specific to get a more specific answer. >=20 > Yeah, that's true, but not very informative. Look, I don't follow OSes= all that > much anymore, but if I had to call up an OS that would be made up of mo= re of a > set of indenpendent pieces, I think I would choose the GNU Hurd OS. Fr= om > everything I read, it was never very successful, if one counts the abil= ity to > return some good throughput as being successful ... or, maybe they have= some > other characteristic which I'm not aware of. >=20 > Anyhow, the HURD (at least in concept) is far, far more of a component = based OS > than anything else I'm aware of is. It's an interesting concept, at th= e very > least, and I do understand it works. Yes, if the OP is talking about microkernels, FreeBSD isn't it. --------------enig980478A284ECF9BAAF5736BF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIjl+NldnAQVacBcgRArx3AKDrXHITyDZmosyuxb9iOvR8KtrhqQCfabgo Md4huJ6/YnxE0NJuv4iR7Ng= =lKM2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig980478A284ECF9BAAF5736BF--