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RE: microkernels (I'm not a huge fan of systemd)



Hi,

>Steve Litt wrote at 2014-07-11 11:21 -0500:
>> A bizarre thought just popped into my head, in the form of a little 
>> voice. The little voice told me that if they guys who controlled the 
>> decision to go to systemd had been the decision makers in 1990, Linux 
>> would have a microkernel today.
>
> Regarding history and microkernels, this document about the reliability features of Minix is very interesting:
>
> http://www.minix3.org/docs/jorrit-herder/osr-jul06.pdf

Hmm, very nice to read. It proves that an inherent stable OS using a microkernel design is possible. And they even build and tested it in the wild.

Bonno Bloksma


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