Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:47:37 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Monolithic Vs. Microkernel |
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Hi!
> > Not *all* of them. On vsta, you could do > > > > ( killall keyboard; sleep 1; keyboard ) & > > > > to change your keymap. On linux you need special tools for managing > > modules and are not protected from module bugs. Try developing filesystem > > on production box.... You can do that on u-kernels. > > Userland filesystems != microkernel.
Yep, but microkernel => userland filesystems ;-). Anyway, they *can* do things linux can't do (or linux has hard time with), like partitioning physical machine into few logical ones, filesystems in userland, ability to debug drivers on production machines, etc.
I like those features, but I'm not sure if costs introduced by u-kernels are worth it. Pavel -- (about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S. no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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