On 03/11/17 20:58, Edward Bartolo wrote:
I know little about this Hurd 'little' thing, but it gives me the shivers like systemd.
Ah. "I know little about it but I don't like it".
Similar to the latter, there is a small core at the centre with all the other helper executables intercommunicating.
What? I thought the criticism of systemd was that it was monolithic and it's "core" was too large!
Sounds too complicated to get the added advantage, of having a very minimal kernel running with root privileges, while all other helper executables that do not need root privileges, run with a lesser priviledge.
Huh? Are you against the idea or the implementation?
If I am remember well, MS Windows (the operating system) does have a micro-kernel, but is it more efficient with an extra layer of intercommunication?
In general the idea with microkernels is security and reliability, not performance -- microkernel boosters will generally handwave and claim the inefficiency is worth it and small anyway.
Before writing them off as fools don't forget that MacOS/iOS uses a microkernel (famously one of the biggest/slowest).
I will stay with Linux, even though it is a huge monolithic executable.
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