From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 14 9:44:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12408.mail.yahoo.com (web12408.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4103F37B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:44:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phelipc@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010314174451.70172.qmail@web12408.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.202.117.115] by web12408.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:44:51 PST Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:44:51 -0800 (PST) From: Phelip Cray Subject: freebsd kernel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I am reading a book called "Screts and Lies" by Bruce Shenier from CounterPane. He says that the kernel of an operating system should be as simple as possible, but that nowadays system designers tend to push everything they can into the kernel area. ( I have read this from other authors also ... ) Is this true with the FreeBSD project? If it is, how come you have to set up a sound board or a NIC by recompiling the kernel? Isn't this stuff suposed to be left outside? thanx, phelip __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message