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Date:      Sat, 08 Apr 2000 00:47:20 +0200
From:      Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>
Cc:        Gustavo V G C Rios <kernel@lince.tdnet.com.br>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ?
Message-ID:  <38EE6578.B27A1B27@nisser.com>
References:  <38ED128C.22C3AA28@tdnet.com.br> <20000406192206.N22104@fw.wintelcom.net> <38ED233E.74716D02@tdnet.com.br> <20000406230234.B4381@fw.wintelcom.net> <38EDD209.421EF9B0@tdnet.com.br> <38EE0536.F2305A40@quack.kfu.com> <38EDDBC4.51F2414D@tdnet.com.br> <38EE49A9.FD59F18@asme.org>

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"Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> There's always room for more confusion; read something about Exokernels
> now :-).

Yeah, somewhere on slashdot some months ago.

> FWIW, I think we are pretty much married with the monolithic kernel plus
> some flexible tools/techniques like kld's and stacking fs to get over
> the known problems.

Don't be too sure. Wasn't there someone who said "the world is full 
of people that love to prove others are wrong" ? ;)

Take Apple for one. FreeBSD over a microkernel. Maybe one of these
years we'll see a release Hurd too <g>.

Roelof

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