...presumably referring to binary-only software, or to sourceware that uses Linux-specific features or otherwise requires tweaking to make it run on other UNIX-compatible systems; if some software was written by somebody using a Linux box, but "accidentally" happens to be generic UNIX-compatible software, it's not really Linux software, it's generic UNIX-compatible software.
FreeBSD kernel is monolithic this way effectively preventing hardware support by manufacturer without the manufacturer supplying the source code.
Eh? The Linux kernel is "monolithic" as well, if loadable kernel modules don't imply "non-monolithic", and Linux and FreeBSD (and possibly the other BSDs) both have loadable kernel modules. Even if the driver isn't a loadable module, they could supply a ".o" to be linked with the kernel.
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...presumably referring to binary-only software, or to sourceware that uses Linux-specific features or otherwise requires tweaking to make it run on other UNIX-compatible systems; if some software was written by somebody using a Linux box, but "accidentally" happens to be generic UNIX-compatible software, it's not really Linux software, it's generic UNIX-compatible software.
Eh? The Linux kernel is "monolithic" as well, if loadable kernel modules don't imply "non-monolithic", and Linux and FreeBSD (and possibly the other BSDs) both have loadable kernel modules. Even if the driver isn't a loadable module, they could supply a ".o" to be linked with the kernel.