From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 7 20:47:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A867937BB31 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 20:47:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from asme.org ([216.252.134.50]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA27DD; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 22:46:20 -0400 Message-ID: <38EEABF5.9F05176@asme.org> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 22:48:05 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roelof Osinga Cc: Gustavo V G C Rios , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ? 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> <38EE6578.B27A1B27@nisser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Roelof Osinga wrote: > ... > > Take Apple for one. FreeBSD over a microkernel. Maybe one of these > years we'll see a release Hurd too . > Of course the first effort on this was BSD lites...I wonder what the hurd is going to do know...Apple got there first. Anyway, I read somewhere that many Apple engineers were happier with a monolitic kernel, (specificly FreeBSD) but the higher levels simply wanted Mach. We will be able to make nice comparisons when we have a FreeBSD port for the PowerPC... cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message