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No more so than a Linux distro does. With the latter, you're referring to base. FreeBSD isn't really any more monolithic than your average distro in that regar
by talideon 9y ago
No more so than a Linux distro does.
With the latter, you're referring to base. FreeBSD isn't really any more monolithic than your average distro in that regard though; it's just that with some services, the userland, and the like it (historically) made sense to maintain with particular stable versions of the kernel. Base is being slimmed down where possible though: bind has been replaced with unbound, dma is likely going to replace sendmail in FreeBSD 11, IIRC, and now that pkgng is proven, the process of packaging the base system should be complete for FreeBSD 12, which will allow freebsd-update to be (mostly) replaced.