Mach/GnuMachkernel is going to replace the unix/linuxkernel in the future mainly because of the advantages of a microkernel versus a monolithic kernel that ends to grow bigger and bigger and thus getting too resource demanding and also awkward working with.
Tanenbaum - the man behind the microkernel minix - has always regarded the linuxkernel as a step backwards as an architectural foundation for an OS even though the success of the linuxkernel is appearant. Is the work with HurdOS running as multiservers on top of GnuMach a realization of Tanenbaums views here and thereby a corollary of his and these logical pursuances? Have I understood it right when I here presume that minix has a more unixfashioned architecture which lack the specific features of Machs task-thread-port functions and therefore cannot be improved as replacement for the linuxkernel?
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