On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 02:14 +0530, Vihan Pandey wrote:
/me notes that you that you didn't say a word about his books.
His books have nothing to do with the topic we're discussing.
Maybe one day they'll be put into practice and a true microkernel will be born.
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.
Yes? AFAIK, they're not true microkernels. Besides, IIRC, microkernels are plagued by the classic problem of "message passing" - too much message passing - which makes it, well, SLOW. Hello? We dont want to follow the M$ ideology:
Hardware speed * Software bloat = constant
if you have EVER studied even an iota of Computer Science you would not make such a ridiculous statement.
Yes, I have studied quite a bit of Computer Science. And yes, I am graduating from college with flying colours. Thank you very much.
A design that only solves short term problems eventually dies and takes all dependent on it to the grave.
Something is better than nothing. Do you mean to imply that we should've waited until the oh-so-1337 microkernel to be written to finish the GNU operating system? Hahaha... dont trivialize Linux's contributing to GNU's success. If it werent for Linux, the GNU shell would've probably be stuck with some proprietary kernel.
ha ha ha /me pukes
Grow up!