Talk:Gotchas, Linux
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Neither FreeBSD nor Linux are microkernels. Both are traditional Unix-like kernels that allow loadable kernel modules (a Sun invention). | Neither FreeBSD nor Linux are microkernels. Both are traditional Unix-like kernels that allow loadable kernel modules (a Sun invention). | ||
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| + | although they can both be made monolithic -- compile all the stuff you want directly in a giant kernel -- traditionally the linux kernel has been treated as a microkernel and the freebsd kernel as a monolithic block. Can they be one or the other? yes, it depends on how it's configured and how the admin running the box wants it to be. | ||
| + | --[[User:Dave|Dave]] 14:00, 24 Nov 2005 (EST) | ||
Revision as of 14:00, 24 November 2005
Neither FreeBSD nor Linux are microkernels. Both are traditional Unix-like kernels that allow loadable kernel modules (a Sun invention).
so how is that not a microkernel?
although they can both be made monolithic -- compile all the stuff you want directly in a giant kernel -- traditionally the linux kernel has been treated as a microkernel and the freebsd kernel as a monolithic block. Can they be one or the other? yes, it depends on how it's configured and how the admin running the box wants it to be. --Dave 14:00, 24 Nov 2005 (EST)
