monolithic

[Ivo Vachkov]

On Nov 13, 2007 8:36 AM, Albert Meyburgh <ameyburgh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read that freebsd is monolithic.  Is that still true?

Yes.

> If I wanted to add functionality like device drivers, or maybe my own
> tcp/ip stack, (or maybe add the facility to allow modules) do I have
> to download the entire source and add it in there?
>
> nothing available like a kernel module in linux? (which afaik you can
> attach at runtime)
>

You can write kernel modules. However this does not make the kernel
non-monolithic (microkernel, exokernel, etc).

>
> also when I add packages using the ports system, then remove them, are
> they completely gone or are there still random conf files / misc..
> laying around slowly bloating the hdd
>
> also is there a way to scan for unused packages somehow and list them
>
>

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