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Re: Installing on a new laptop
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Ken Teh <[log in to unmask]>
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Ken Teh <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 1 Mar 2013 08:35:59 -0600
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Time to stop this thread, methinks.


On 03/01/2013 08:06 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> Have you run a ps -ax on a Linux box lately? You call that monolithic?
> The linux kernel has been migrating to a micro kernel slowly for the last decade now. In some ways its benefited from its older cousin GNU Hurd because the Linux Kernel developers had the benefit of knowing what went wrong and what worked well in Hurd. By the way from my understanding one of the things they really got wrong was using Mach as a base because it was the root cause of a majority of the issues they've had, and last I herd they were stripping Mach out of the Hurd kernel.
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> -- Sent from my HP Pre3
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> On Mar 1, 2013 12:13 AM, zxq9 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On 03/01/2013 01:03 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>  > Modern BSD is a micro-kernel ("MACH") design, whereas Linux still is a
>  > monolithic kernel design...
>
> implying...
>
> That monolithic kernel design is demonstrably primitive in every respect
> to micro-kernel design and that there is a universal evolutionary path
> predicted by some law we have yet to discover.
>
> That kernel design trumps driver availability in every respect.
>
> That any of this matters since nobody is fronting the development time
> to implement $astronaut_arch_X.
>
> That this is the place to discuss this.

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