Harold Grovesteen responded: "And moving from Linux to L4 is important why? Maybe I just do not understand the context of 'community' in your response."
Community consists of people and people use people-oriented systems. Therefore the system has to be oriented to the people. A monolithic kernel cannot do this for a number of reasons, the most important of which is that it confounds hardware support. Monolithic kernels are only useful in server systems, such as an IBM mainframe, for which Linux is both competition and has been virtualized. Linux exists as the winner of a debate between Trovalds and Tannenbaum, and after nearly twenty years, we suddenly we wake up to the reality that Linus was wrong and Tannenbaum was right: every other desktop out there, except Linux, and the Linux-based droid, is microkernel, and has been since the mid-90s. I can give a long list of technical reasons, including development support, but it would distract from this singly important reality. Plus I am really, really busy at the moment with a classical introversion/extraversion paper right now, but the "subject" is really helping me summon up patience for this "object."
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