On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Sarcar, Shourya C (MED) wrote: > I cannot foresee a microkernel based Linux offshoot (which wouldn't be > Linux) which with a driver interface compatible to that of Linux.
Why? There is already considerable code sharing between the various BSD based kernels and Linux, and will be quite a bit of sharing with HURD, so why would any other thread be different? In some ways when you are talking embeded Linux, you are talking about something more foreign than BSD to the desktop-Linux kernel. In many cases Linux is just the "brand name", and doesn't relate much to the actual code being run. > I guess what is very important is the perception people have. Once Linux > breaks up, I think it will be easier for Microsoft and others to sell > the idea that Linux is headed the ol' Unix way. My brain sometimes thinks post-Microsoft even before they are gone. While it is true that there is perception and marketing issues to deal with "today", these need to be understood as educational issues and not technical issues. > Especially to keep the corporate support flowing, it is necessary to > provide a united picture. It can be very hard for the average IT manager > to make a choice between user-thread and kernel threaded kernels for his > ERP application :-). I don't see the relevance to them. If the ERP application is Open Source itself, they will be able to compile it on everything from a tiny PC to a mainframe, and won't really care what type of kernel any of these are running as long as all the API's are compatable. A properly written application should not know or care what kernel it is running on. --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> See http://weblog.flora.ca/ for announcements, activities, and opinions http://www.flora.ca/osss2002/ "Open Source Solutions Showcase" (Past) Next: GOSLINGS (Getting Open Source and Linux INto GovernmentS) -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
