Quoting Smelly Pooh (plop at redbrick.dcu.ie):
> Linux is an old design, Linux has an awful lot of code to go through for
> an OS course, Linux has varying qualities of code (some of it is quite
> bad), Linux has optimisations that complicate the reading of said code,
> the list goes on.
But, in other cases, "old" can equate to "classic". ;-> Over across San
Francisco Bay from me, Marshall Kirk McKusick teaches an evening course at
University of California at Berkeley on the design and implementation of
4.4 BSD -- and I'll be going to out of my way to attend, some time soon,
as it's a unique opportunity.
And I _would_ say that any ostensible class on operating systems that
doesn't try to include some part of that, perhaps based on FreeBSD, is
quite deficient and is doing the students no favour.
--
Cheers,
Rick Moen Bu^so^stopu min per kulero.
rick at linuxmafia.com
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