What does the micro/monolithic kernel naming scheme even mean?

On 2/25/11, Neil Laubenthal <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was lumping Solaris and Free BSD into the whole "Red Hat" idea . . .while
> I realize they're different animals you can really lump all of them into a
> general category of *nix . . .given the fact that they might want to have
> used servers with many processors in the past then using Solaris or some
> other unix OS is more likely. I was just glossing over the differences
> between the various flavors so we didn't descend into a discussion about
> micro vs monolithic kernels and the best kind of *nix to run . . .because
> although those may be worthwhile debates they're beyond the scope of the
> current discussion.
>
> I guess it's just a matter of . . .do they want to use MacOS for their
> servers . . .or do they want to have the most efficient and powerful server
> farm they can get; which may be something else.
>
>
> On Feb 25, 2011, at 2:21 PM, objectwerks inc wrote:
>
>> I am more likely thinking Solaris as that is what they have used in the
>> past (and probably still are using).  Oracle has screwed it up but there
>> are Solaris offshoots that allow them to keep their own destiny.  Apple
>> has lots of Solaris expertise I would think.  I severely doubt they would
>> use any sort of Linux.  If any sort of "free" OS I would expect a Solaris
>> offshoot or FreeBSD, with the Solaris ranking up there as my first choice.
>>   Virtualized OS X is also a good possibility.
>>
>
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