Linux on old laptop - still trying...

[Jerry Feldman]

On Monday 12 June 2006 12:16 pm, Paul Lussier wrote:
> (Linus claims to be against micro-kernels.  It turns out he just
> doesn't understand that is exactly what he created :)
Not exactly. I believe it is the Mach Kernel and similar types of 
microkernels that use message passing via some form of IPC. In contrast, 
the use of modules certainly makes the monolithic kernel much smaller 
image. 
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