Slashdot reopened the endless Linus Torvald vs. Andy Tanenbaum debateabout microkernels and monolithic operating systems. This is asilly discussion akin to debating bicycles versus cars: both are ...

Researchers contend almost all Linux OS flaws could be mitigated to less-than-critical severity with an OS design based on a verified microkernel. In an exhaustive study of critical Linux ...

Generally speaking, 40 is considered “over the hill” in human beings. I’m 35, and as I get closer and closer to the crest of that hill, I can tell you with some certainty that the best is yet to come.

An operating system architecture for a particular platform that includes all OS functions such as the file system, virtual memory manager, application interprocess communication and drivers. Contrast ...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>from apple's darwin page:<BR>Darwin uses a monolithic kernel based on FreeBSD 4.4 and the OSF/mk ...

There's a slow effort underway to allow virtually any part of the kernel to be extracted into its own shared library, thus enabling users to use any alternative subsystem they please. There's a long ...

Disagreements exist about whether or not microkernels are good. It's easy to get the impression they're good because they were proposed as a refinement after monolithic kernels. Microkernels are ...