[oclug] Thems fightin words..

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 13/03/02 Greg Franks did speaketh:

> RMS> The Hurd kernel of FSF's GNU system is more powerful than Linux
> RMS> because it is designed using a microkernel instead of a monolithic
> RMS> architecture, Stallman said.

    I don't see how a microkernel could be more powerful. More robust perhaps,
since your drivers would be user-space apps and you can restart them if they
die, but the increased messaging from kernel-space to user-space should
decrease performance, not increase it, no?

    Mike

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