monolithic

[Nikolay Pavlov]

On Tuesday 13 November 2007 08:36:36 Albert Meyburgh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read that freebsd is monolithic.  Is that still true?
>
> 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)
>
>
>
> 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
>

Hi Albert. Probably you should read this FAQ:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html
And visit a documentation page: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html. In any 
case freebsd-questions is much better place to find an answer for such 
questions.

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