Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:44:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Phelip Cray <phelipc@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   freebsd kernel
Message-ID:  <20010314174451.70172.qmail@web12408.mail.yahoo.com>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

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




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010314174451.70172.qmail>