--- Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On 6/3/07, Vihan Pandey wrote: > > They are ALREADY being put into practice look at > XNU it is a Mach > > implementation supported and being used by Apple, > even Sun is using a > > Mach variant(even though you may not awareness of > the same, nor > > bothered to make your self aware). And > irrespective of FUD said by > > other people, i DO have hope for HURD and Coyotos. > > AFAIK pure microkernels have not found favour with > commercially > popular OSes (including FOSS alternatives). Apple's > XNU is hybrid, not > a pure microkernel > > Also, the Solaris kernel is monolithic: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29
There were issues about maintenance with Monolithic kernel, such as Linux. But is it really difficult to maintain, when there are nearly thousands of contributors to it? -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode Download prohibited? No problem! To chat from any browser without download, Click Here: http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
