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Re: DragonFlyBSD / 386BSD 1.0 - modularity


From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:05:49 +0200

-On [20050801 14:21], Alex Burke (alexjeffburke@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>As I understand it, 386BSD 1.0 was the continuation of 0.1 but with
>the kernel modularized. Since I have read that DragonFlyBSD aims to
>eventually try to run large components (such as VFS) in user land, I
>was wondering whether conceptually they are at all similar? What is
>the eventual aim of DragonFlyBSD and userland services?

Look more toward L4 and Mach.  That sort of microkernelish set up is the
kind of hybrid form DragonFly will add more and more.

At least, my simplistic interpretation of it.

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