Re: linux and micro kernel

From: Chad Miller (cmiller@surfsouth.com)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 14:06:24 EST


On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:20:23PM +0200, Rafal Maszkowski wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 07:41:26AM -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > Tonglu Yi <tlyi@fm365.com> writes:
> > > linux is not micro kernel based OS, would it change to that in the
> > > future?
> > never say never, but the chances of this happening are slim and none.
> > especially since linux has automatic loading and unloading of kernel
> > modules, the advantages of microkernel are few.
 
> I think some Macintosh version is microkernel based.

There is MkLinux, and it runs on the Mack kernel, so it's doesn't know or
care that it's on any particular hardware.

                                                - chad

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