From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 10 2:57: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A11B14EAA for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 02:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA24287; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:56:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Arun Sharma Cc: Christoph Kukulies , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different? References: <199906071558.RAA17138@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 10 Jun 1999 11:56:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: Arun Sharma's message of "07 Jun 1999 12:20:56 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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." DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message