Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:43:24 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: adsharma@home.com (Arun Sharma), kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different? Message-ID: <199906101443.JAA00652@dyson.iquest.net.> In-Reply-To: <xzplnds8jkm.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Jun 10, 1999 11:56:57 am"
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: > Arun Sharma <adsharma@home.com> 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." > Anyone that I work with would tell you that I spend MUCH too MUCH time reading technical reports from any available source. I regret knowing only English though (and can read French passably.) It is very important to look at what others have done, because it is quite arrogant to assume that one can create as effectively as the sum of everyone else!!! -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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