From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 10 10:15:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703F314D6B for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:15:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA00235; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:16:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906101716.NAA00235@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:11:46 -0400 To: dyson@iquest.net, des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) From: Dennis Subject: Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different? Cc: adsharma@home.com (Arun Sharma), kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199906101443.JAA00652@dyson.iquest.net.> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:43 AM 6/10/99 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: >Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: >> Arun Sharma writes: >> > I'd say most of the differences are in implementation and development >> > methodology. Linux camp seems to be proud of breaking traditions and >> > concepts invented after lengthy research. I haven't seen that many >> > iconoclasts in my short encounter with FreeBSD. >> >> You say that as if it's a good thing... I'd amend it to "The Linux >> camp seems to think it's a good idea to ignore countless man-years of >> research and development in the field of OS design, and make the same >> mistakes other people have made, corrected and documented years before >> them. I haven't seen that many ignorants in my short encounter with >> FreeBSD." LOL...these are my thoughts exactly. Linux is what you would do the first time you did something without much experience. They finally caved in on spl type mechanisms, though the mechanisms provided in v2.2 are very crude. Worst of all, most of the OS is undocumented and if you dont ask Alan Cox (or he doesnt feel like giving you an answer) then you are pretty much in the dark. If they would just do it right rather than re-writing the thing every year, but I have little hope. I cant even convince them that is it unreasonable to panic the system because 1 buffer doesnt have enough room for a header. Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message