On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 12:04:41PM +0000, JB wrote: > - a new Linux micro kernel > It will address a different architecture of kernel, system, and user spaces. > There is a lot of know-how, theoretical and empirical research, and > experience in this area available. > The Linux community (professional and amateur) went thru trenches and is > experienced as well. >From <http://lwn.net/Articles/403022/> (free content in a few weeks): At this point, a member of the audience asked about microkernel architectures. Linus responded that this question has long since been answered by reality: microkernels don't work. That architecture was seen as an easy way to compartmentalize problems; Linus, too, originally thought that it was a better way to go. But a monolithic kernel was easier to implement back at the beginning, so that's what he did. Since then, the flaw in microkernel architectures has become clear: the various pieces have to communicate, and getting the communication right is a very hard problem. A better way, he says, is to put everything you really need into a single kernel, but to push everything possible into user space. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
