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Re:The Move from Linux to FreeBSD by Flow on Sunday November 16, 2014 @05:00AM (#8613848)
Oh come on! This is the second comment in this thread that seem to claim Linux is so special and glorious. FreeBSD definitely does this, maybe even 3BSD or 4BSD did this.

Functionality like this is basic OS design knowledge.

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Re:The Move from Linux to FreeBSD by danieldk on Sunday November 16, 2014 @10:33AM (#8614403)
Oh come on! This is the second comment in this thread that seem to claim Linux is so special and glorious. FreeBSD definitely does this, maybe even 3BSD or 4BSD did this.

The modern VM architecture was definitely introduced after 3BSD or 4BSD, since NetBSD only introduced a unified buffer cache in 2000 and is also derived from 4.4BSD.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...

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Re:The Move from Linux to FreeBSD by CHY872 on Sunday November 16, 2014 @05:24AM (#8613876)
Yes, exactly right - so it makes his conclusions sound fishy.

I don't think anyone's trying to say that Linux is so special and glorious (beyond BSD).

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