From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 11 3:30:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dyson.iquest.net. (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E12C14D16 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 03:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from toor@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA01145; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 05:29:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199906111029.FAA01145@dyson.iquest.net.> Subject: Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different? In-Reply-To: <199906102135.PAA45292@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Jun 10, 1999 03:35:43 pm" To: imp@harmony.village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 05:29:34 -0500 (EST) Cc: billh@mag.ucsd.edu (Bill Huey), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh said: > 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. > Another thing: Even if one depends on the docs for the VM in the new (Red) Daemon Book, that person isn't too far away from the CURRENT FreeBSD VM code. FreeBSD is likely closer to Lite/2 (even with the VM changes) than almost anyone else, while keeping up technologically. -- 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