Re: Linus replies

[Donnie Jones]

Hello,

For my pure education, what is gained going the microkernel way?

Based upon Linus' post, I don't see where there are gains.  Performance, 
maintainability, decreased complexity all seem better with monolithic 
kernels.  Security maybe is better with microkernels?

Thanks.
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Donnie

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Tom Bachmann wrote:

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> Donnie Jones wrote:
> > I am very new to kernel development, but I do currently work with
> > distributed algorithms and I find Linus argument that microkernels are
> > more complex very interesting, what do you guys think?
>
> Well, the fact that we do not have too many microkernels (just about 2 +
> some variations of these) and only a few multiserver OSes should
> indicate that it is not too simple (writing them).
> I personally guess that some things are harder, some things are easier
> and lots of things are different. But we gain a lot going the
> microkernel way.
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