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To: altair

You’ve heard of video drivers crashing a Linux machine? I have. That can’t happen with a true microkernel.


72 posted on 01/23/2010 4:11:25 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

I’ve heard of it. It’s never happened to me, but I’ve heard of it.

It’s kind of interesting that you should pick this particular example. It’s maybe the one thing that Microsoft Windows got right and Linus got wrong at first. Video drivers, particularly for 3d rendering belong in the kernel.


74 posted on 01/23/2010 6:22:16 PM PST by altair (I hope he fails)
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