| From: | "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:25:27 +0930 |
On Monday, 1 August 2005 at 10:55:54 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: > On 8/1/05, Alex Burke <alexjeffburke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have been reading up allot on the history of BSD based operating >> systems, and I know that Net/FreeBSDs came from 386BSD 0.1 (based >> heavily on 4.3 Net/2 tape with missing files replaced) with patch kits >> applied. >> >> 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? > > Perhaps asking on the DragonFlyBSD lists would yield better results? :) > >> >> I realise that this might seem stupid question since the code has >> changed so much (4.4BSD-Lite code integrated, VM system...etc) but I >> guess this is my attempt to try to understand things better, hopefully >> with the aim of one day being able to help in some form. >> >> I also wanted to ask if anybody knew any good books about the >> architecture of BSD systems that can be read by someone no already >> knowledgeable about kernel design. > > The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is a > great book for that. > > As is The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System. Since Alex was talking about 386BSD, I should point out that Bill Jolitz also wrote a book about it. I've had it in my hands and browsed through it, and it didn't look too bad, but I didn't buy it (pretty much the only BSD book I don't have). It's not very relevant nowadays. Greg -- Finger grog@xxxxxxxxx for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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