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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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On 2005-01-31 09:17, Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> wrote:
> The FreeBSD kernel is monolithic correct?

Yes.  At least, sort of.

> Does it support or does it use kernel loadable modules and if so why?

Yes.  Because by not having everything loaded at the same time, a lot of
memory can be saved.  Memory which can be used to do more useful stuff.

PS:

You could have found hundreds of thousands of references for FreeBSD
kernel modules on Google (almost 800,000 hits), without posting here.

Use the network, please :P