--- Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 6/3/07, Vihan Pandey wrote:
They are ALREADY being put into practice look at
XNU it is a Mach
implementation supported and being used by Apple,
even Sun is using a
Mach variant(even though you may not awareness of
the same, nor
bothered to make your self aware). And
irrespective of FUD said by
other people, i DO have hope for HURD and Coyotos.
AFAIK pure microkernels have not found favour with commercially popular OSes (including FOSS alternatives). Apple's XNU is hybrid, not a pure microkernel
Also, the Solaris kernel is monolithic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29
There were issues about maintenance with Monolithic kernel, such as Linux. But is it really difficult to maintain, when there are nearly thousands of contributors to it?
-- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode
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