From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 15 16:19:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23802 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 16:19:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23787 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 16:19:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26832; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 17:18:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd026815; Sun Nov 15 17:18:47 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA05130; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 17:18:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811160018.RAA05130@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 00:18:41 +0000 (GMT) Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811111937.LAA04505@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Nov 11, 98 11:37:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It is our history to have buggy NFS. It is our history to have a > bogus kernel module subsystem. It is our history to play catch-up to > Linux. > > The good old days weren't always good, and tomorrow's not as bad as it > seems. Actually, the kernel modules were not bogus given the requirement that we not have a kernel linker because of anti-bloat sentiment, and the fact that they are 8 years old. At the time, they were comparable to the state-of-the-art SunOS techmnology (upon whose design I based their functionality and command line tools). Also, we had kernel modules long before Linux; if anything, FreeBSD played cath-up to NetBSD, since NetBSD was the first BSD to integrate my LKM code. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message