In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mareeba
<mareeba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:35:19 GMT
<HFa5h.50660$r61.22073@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> __/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Saturday 11 November 2006 00:01 \__
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>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mareeba
>>> <mareeba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote
>>> on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:12:02 GMT
>>> <SO65h.50567$r61.29897@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> Jerry McBride wrote:
>>>>> Mareeba wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>> Syllable 0.6.2 released
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>> | Syllable was born in July 2002 as a fork of the AtheOS
>>>>>>> | operating system. Several AtheOS developers, concerned
>>>>>>> | about the long-term development of AtheOS, created
>>>>>>> | Syllable to ensure that development would continue.
>>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.syllable.org/story.php?id=246
>>>>>> I'm sure the 3 people that use it are delighted.
>>>>> Gee... I must be one of the three then. Fact is, Syllable is a very user
>>>>> friendly alternative all the current available OS's... As it progresses
>>>>> into the future, more and more applications will come online.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you even looked at it?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes. Spawn of Atheos. Ridiculous waste of time, horrible kernel design,
>>>> awful UI toolkit. JUNK.
>>> And precisely just how much do you know about NT/XP/Vista
>>> kernel design, then? :-)
>>
>> Linux: let's make things modular to accomodate change, damage control,
>> distributed development and top-down design.
>>
>> Windows (the monolith): What's a kernel?
>>
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> Which 'windows' do you refer to? Later versions are not monolithic
> kernel designs. XP for instance has a microkernel.
OK....so explain precisely why Windows is a "microkernel"
and not a macrokernel, a popcorn kernel, a lieutenant
colonel, a mathematical construct, or a figment of a
marketing person's imagnation.
For its part Linux is a weird mix of traditional kernel
and loadable modules, at least as far as I can tell.
I'm not quite sure how to characterize it since I've not
looked into it in gory detail, and am not sure what a
"microkernel" is anyway. However, it's quite clear that
one can chop out most of the Linux kernel (namely, the
bits one doesn't really require) and it would still work;
for example, if there are no SCSI drives in one's system,
all SCSI modules can simply be removed.
Oh, and in case you're wondering:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Kernel.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GroupKernel.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RingKernel.html
For this set of links, it's the set of elements in the
domain mapping to the arithmetic identity in the range of
a homomorphism. It is also called the null space. There
are other meanings, however, as well, such as
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DirichletKernel.html
And that's your math lesson for today. Tune in tomorrow
when we'll discuss the ins and outs of attempting to prove
that the roots of quintics irreducible over Z[x] aren't
expressible using radicals. Or was it proving 2+2=4?
Darn. Where are my lecture notes this week?
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