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Get To Know Mach, the Kernel of Mac OS X
An anonymous reader writes "Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. So what is Mac OS X's kernel? The Mach microkernel. The debate around Monolithic (Linux) and Micro (Mach) kernels continues, and there is a great chapter online about the Mach system from the very good book 'Operating System Concepts'. Which design is better? I report, you decide." Warning: link is to a PDF.
The apple metrosexuals vs the greasy bearded GNU/linux hippies! Who will win!
commence the dead horse beating. i start : mach owns.
So people can do the
You got a light Mac?
No, but I've got dark brown NeXT machine.
joke.
Warning: link is to a PDF"
Um, if you want to warn anyone maybe you should warn the sys admin of the server that hosts the PDF file that you just put a link to on the main page of slashdot. I think they'll care a little more about the super slashdot effect (I'm coining that term for when a non-html file is linked to from slashdot - be it pdf, mpg, avi, etc.) than we will about taking the extra time to load.
Let's ask what OS is better. The Apple and Linux people will go at each others throats and will in the end agree that they hate Window$.
Smucks.
This is another way of starting a sig with this and ending it with that.
Why is .pdf matter? Does not the American Slashdotter not read the article, true?
Read journal when you are not understand
*Commence horrible flashback to "OS Design" class as an undergrad*...
With the first link, the chain is forged.
So... does anyone here know what Steve Jobs and Mach have been up to since their halcyon days at NeXT?
use the right tool for the job, be that Linux, mac, windows, whatever
Yes. For instance, if you're wanting to test out the effects of the latest greatest spyware, use Windows and IE to do anything on the Internet.
Period.
There is no debate. It has been well accepted that micro-kernels are the way to go.
Which is why nowadays it's impossible to find a widely used OS that isn't based on a microkernel!
Andrew Tenenbaum, is that you?
as we switch Steve Job's kernel beans with new Roaster's Light Linux Beans.
Now, let's see if he notices!
Should start saying Apple/Mach now?
I don't think that is needed since more than enough people mock Apple already.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
"Linux is a kernel, not an operating system....."
Then what is the name of the OS?
Is it Redhat, Debian, Mandrake; I thought those were distributions?
Is it GNU? or maybe GNU/Linux? HURD?
GNOME? KDE? - Desktops?
It's not UNIX! Or is it? SCO was right?!! ahhh!$@$#
I KNOW! IT'S TUX!
YEAH! That's the ticket! It's TUX!
TUX Rocks!
TUX Rolls!
TUX Rules!
http://www.tux.org/
I don't want a pickle; I just want a Motor-Cycle! A four foot cop arrived with a five foot gun!
"Mach was the greatest intellectual fraud in the last ten years."
;login, 9/1990
"What about X?"
"I said `intellectual'."
Xnu... Xenu... I knew it, all hail our scientologist overlords! Lord Cruise and Travolta shall rule the lands!
Home of the midwest loser - www.say-10.net
Yes, Apple should totally follow the direction of HURD, as they are truly pioneers in not-releasing useable software, from which Apple could learn a lot from.
What's better? PHP or Python?
Perl.
Linux is in spirit a monolithic design, and MacOS is in spirit a mach-based microkernel design.
More like Linux is like a farming co-op, XNU is Monsanto.
Or, maybe Linux is like a monkey with a spanner, and XNU is like a komodo dragon with a toothache.
No, wait. Linux is like a pulmonary thrombosis! and XNU is the dropped sponge in a gastric bypass!
Damn! OK! I admit it! My analogies have fallen, and they can't get up.
I will now explain the difference with an interpretive dance, perhaps some origami.
Always nice to see an exception to "It's funny because it's true".