Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Steve Kudlak
Josef El-Rayes wrote: Dear Arief, as you can see your questions are not very welcome on the mailinglists, therefore i advice you to have a look at this book if you are interested in BSD's technical background Title: The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System Authors:

Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Halliday
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Steve Kudlak wrote: If one really wanted to have fun, and I have thought of this. A triple boot system would be the real way to find out the differences and compare the *BSD, Linux and the Windows Universes. What a unique idea.

Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Steve Kudlak
Paul Halliday wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Steve Kudlak wrote: If one really wanted to have fun, and I have thought of this. A triple boot system would be the real way to find out the differences and compare the *BSD, Linux and the Windows Universes. What a unique idea.

Re: kld inetsw.pr_protocol overriding + old reuse

2003-01-24 Thread Nicolas Mallet
A proof of concept : http://www.rootshell.be/~nmlabs/hacktcp.c To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Josef El-Rayes
Dear Arief, as you can see your questions are not very welcome on the mailinglists, therefore i advice you to have a look at this book if you are interested in BSD's technical background Title: The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System Authors: McKusick, Bostic, Karels and

Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Rik van Riel
[follow-ups to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please] On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Josef El-Rayes wrote: as you can see your questions are not very welcome on the mailinglists, therefore i advice you to have a look at this book if you are interested in BSD's technical background There is one mailing list where

Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Bill Studenmund
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, arief_mulya wrote: Dear all, I Apologize, If this thread has existed before, and so if this is very offtopic and tiredsome for most of you here. I'm a newbie, and just about to get my feet wet into the kernel-code, been using (GNU/)Linux (or whatever the name is, I

Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Peter Wemm
[dropped linux-kernel] Bill Studenmund wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, arief_mulya wrote: 4. Any chance of merging the very best part of each kernel? 5. Or is it possible to do so? No, I don't forsee merging. der Mouse pointed out the GPL issue, which is one where I think the BSD and Linux

Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Steve Kudlak wrote: Like speaking of technical things has anyone brought up a raytrace/rendering or other fancy computer graphics system under FreeBSD? Yes. Manex Visual Effects did. Perhaps you've heard of the movie The Matrix, whose computer graphics were rendered on FreeBSD systems? --

Ugly mount argv[0] trickery

2003-01-24 Thread Tim Kientzle
The attached patch eliminates a bit of unnecessary cleverness from 'mount.' If someone would do me the favor of committing this, I would greatly appreciate it. Namely, some mount_XXX helpers support multiple filesystem types and therefore must consider argv[0]. For no apparent reason, mount puts

Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Bristow
[ Reply-To set to me: This is probably off topic for all of the lists: all of the ones I read, anyway. ] On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:03:53AM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote: 2. How does it differ? What are the technical reasoning behind the decisions? They differ in most technical areas.