Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:52:52 +0200 From: "Ivo Vachkov" <ivo.vachkov@gmail.com> To: "Albert Meyburgh" <ameyburgh@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: monolithic Message-ID: <f85d6aa70711122352h2a886a9fl8d2a819dbd13a738@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <35f053b10711122236t7ce754eew69dd55144d5a144f@mail.gmail.com> References: <35f053b10711122236t7ce754eew69dd55144d5a144f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Nov 13, 2007 8:36 AM, Albert Meyburgh <ameyburgh@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I read that freebsd is monolithic. Is that still true? Yes. > If I wanted to add functionality like device drivers, or maybe my own > tcp/ip stack, (or maybe add the facility to allow modules) do I have > to download the entire source and add it in there? > > nothing available like a kernel module in linux? (which afaik you can > attach at runtime) > You can write kernel modules. However this does not make the kernel non-monolithic (microkernel, exokernel, etc). > > also when I add packages using the ports system, then remove them, are > they completely gone or are there still random conf files / misc.. > laying around slowly bloating the hdd > > also is there a way to scan for unused packages somehow and list them > > -- "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie
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