Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 1999 05:02:29 +0100 (EET) | From | Marek Habersack <> | Subject | Re: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'? |
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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > 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'. Well, then my home machine is a servstation :-)))) (SCSI, network, multimedia, IDE) :)))))
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