Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 1999 02:46:59 +0000 | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Subject | Re: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'? |
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On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 01:44:55AM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Lars G. T. Joergensen wrote: > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Richard.... > > > > > > > Couldn't the kernel be split up into a server kernel and workstation > > kernel? > And where would you split the kernel? What makes a linux machine a server is > not the kernel, but the various daemons SERVING some kind of service. The > kernel "merely" provides a medium for those daemons - networking, file > systems, access to hardware etc.
As a gross generalisation in the PC world:
The computers with all kinds of funky SCSI controllers and network settings and no `multimedia' drivers are `servers'.
The computers with IDE, sound cards, maybe TV and radio cards too, and quite simple network setup are `workstations'.
It would be short-sighted to set these generalisations about drivers `in stone', though.
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