Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-11 Thread Marius Bendiksen
at it because the source tree is a consistently moving target. s#moving#wreckless# s/wreckless/reckless/. wreckless is most certainly not true ;) - marius - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-11 Thread John S. Dyson
Warner Losh said: In message 199906102125.oaa28...@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

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-11 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Marius Bendiksen wrote: at it because the source tree is a consistently moving target. s#moving#wreckless# s/wreckless/reckless/. wreckless is most certainly not true ;) I hate when I make spelling errors that change the entire message. : - bill fumerola -

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Arun Sharma adsha...@home.com writes: I'd say most of the differences are in implementation and development methodology. Linux camp seems to be proud of breaking traditions and concepts invented after lengthy research. I haven't seen that many iconoclasts in my short encounter with FreeBSD.

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Bill Huey
You say that as if it's a good thing... I'd amend it to The Linux camp seems to think it's a good idea to ignore countless man-years of research and development in the field of OS design, and make the same mistakes other people have made, corrected and documented years before them. I haven't

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread John S. Dyson
Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: Arun Sharma adsha...@home.com writes: I'd say most of the differences are in implementation and development methodology. Linux camp seems to be proud of breaking traditions and concepts invented after lengthy research. I haven't seen that many iconoclasts in my

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Dennis
At 09:43 AM 6/10/99 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: Arun Sharma adsha...@home.com writes: I'd say most of the differences are in implementation and development methodology. Linux camp seems to be proud of breaking traditions and concepts invented after lengthy

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message 199906101017.daa27...@mag.ucsd.edu Bill Huey writes: : It's a good thing because assumptions about memory useage within the kernel, : portability abstractions, internal buffer queue overhead, etc..., need : to reexamined to see if they are still relevant. While it is true that one

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Bill Huey
: This is always good, assuming that this is done properly with peer review : and that folks listen to it. Linux isn't peer reviewed in the traditional sense of this meaning, so your whole argument fails because of that. I'd agree if it was entensively peer reviewed, it might be a good

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message 199906102125.oaa28...@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

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Bill Huey wrote: There definite technical problems with Linux, but it doesn't seem to measure up to the level of criticism that I've seen directed at it because the source tree is a consistently moving target. s#moving#wreckless# - bill fumerola - bi...@chc-chimes.com -

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
* Dennis (den...@etinc.com) [990610 19:58]: At 09:43 AM 6/10/99 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: Arun Sharma adsha...@home.com writes: I'd say most of the differences are in implementation and development methodology. Linux camp seems to be proud of breaking

linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-07 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Could one say that Linux vs. FreeBSD kernels are conceptually different what task scheduling, queueing, interrupt handling, driver architecture, buffer caching, vm etc. is concerned? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies k...@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord

RE: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-07 Thread Alton, Matthew
Yes, quite. -Original Message- From: Christoph Kukulies [SMTP:k...@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:59 AM To: hack...@freebsd.org Subject: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different? Could one say that Linux vs. FreeBSD kernels

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-07 Thread Arun Sharma
Christoph Kukulies k...@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de writes: Comments from someone who's studied Linux for a while and has started studying FreeBSD only recently. Could one say that Linux vs. FreeBSD kernels are conceptually different what task scheduling, queueing, interrupt handling