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Article #1209Re: Linux history - microkernel, monolithic
From: yttrx
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:39
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:39
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy Vladimirr Saigon <kantabusse@lortemail.dk> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody know why Linus choose to make linux monolithic instead of > microkernel? I have been told, that there was some dispute about that > decision. > > Best regards. > There was once an MKLinux, which was a very light distribution many years ago that ran a Mach microkernel. I ran it for a little over a year with great success on a powermac 7500. I think you're looking for the flame war between Torvalds and Tanenbaum about 14 years ago on comp.os.minix. You can find that, and exactly why linux doesn't use a microkernel here: http://tinyurl.com/go5uz -----yttrx -- http://www.yttrx.net
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