"Johan Kullstam" <kullstam@ne.mediaone.net> writes:
> 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.
There is advantage : with microkernel, you have one kernel, which is
really small and run on top of the system which is there to manage
basic task, all the other stuff ( drivers for exemple ) are located
in userspace.
The advantage is that there is really not many chance for the kernel
to crash, as it only do minimal thing.
If a driver crash, it doesn't disturb the kernel.
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