From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <031701c49126$2e52f570$79fa7d50@SOMA> From: "boyd, rounin" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <200409020940.i829e219008666@skeeve.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] UN to fund linux for the 3rd world Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:51:03 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: dc7fa6f4-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > My affection for bsd over linux is two-fold. Firstly, the > kernel is a mess. If you've ever been on the linux kernel > mailing list for even a day you see that "development" is > nothing more than a thousand cooks tweaking concoctions to > throw into the stew. You'll never see a 'design and > implementation' book for linux because you can't exposit > *how* the code works as there's almost no design. there is this, but for drivers only, but it does give a lot of insight in how VSF linux is: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html 3 zillion ways to do things i don't want to do.