From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 10 14:36:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F01614DE4 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:36:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA33520; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:36:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA45292; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:35:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199906102135.PAA45292@harmony.village.org> To: Bill Huey Subject: Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different? Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:25:49 PDT." <199906102125.OAA28416@mag.ucsd.edu> References: <199906102125.OAA28416@mag.ucsd.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:35:43 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199906102125.OAA28416@mag.ucsd.edu> Bill Huey writes: : Yeah, that's problematic and short sighted on their part. It's certainly : not a question of expertise from what I've seen since there are very : competent technical folks with strong acedemic CS backgrounds hanging : out on the list. It seems like more of an implementation issues than : and acedemic knowledge issue. : : I don't know what to think about this at this time, since I'm just : now getting into understand the Linux source tree. One reason that I stopped was that I couldn't keep up with understanding the changes. This means that all my time for learning linux has been wasted because almost all of it is now obsolete, and has been obsolete for a couple of years now. Most of the time that I've spent learning the BSD internals has paid off as it is still current. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message