Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:11:12 +0200 From: Nikolay Pavlov <qpadla@gmail.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Albert Meyburgh <ameyburgh@gmail.com> Subject: Re: monolithic Message-ID: <200711131211.17170.qpadla@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <35f053b10711122236t7ce754eew69dd55144d5a144f@mail.gmail.com> References: <35f053b10711122236t7ce754eew69dd55144d5a144f@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tuesday 13 November 2007 08:36:36 Albert Meyburgh wrote: > Hi, > > I read that freebsd is monolithic. Is that still true? > > If I wanted to add functionality like device drivers, or maybe my own > tcp/ip stack, (or maybe add the facility to allow modules) do I have > to download the entire source and add it in there? > > nothing available like a kernel module in linux? (which afaik you can > attach at runtime) > > > > also when I add packages using the ports system, then remove them, are > they completely gone or are there still random conf files / misc.. > laying around slowly bloating the hdd > > also is there a way to scan for unused packages somehow and list them > Hi Albert. Probably you should read this FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html And visit a documentation page: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html. In any case freebsd-questions is much better place to find an answer for such questions. -- ====================================================================== - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. <<<----------------------------------- ====================================================================== [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHOXhF/2R6KvEYGaIRAtbVAKDd1xWqyArt1/n5b/nUJa8R9Gmz7QCeNIri KLoKlcZRFqVlGLXjNfevkl0= =nKUu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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