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Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel

Posted by Zonk on from the just-like-in-the-constitution dept.

Tiberius_Fel writes "TechWorld is running an article saying that Vista's graphics will not be in the kernel. The goal is obviously to improve reliability, alongside the plan to make most drivers run in user mode." From the article: "The shift of the UI into user mode also helps to make the UI hardware independent - and has already allowed Microsoft to release beta code of the UI to provide developers with early experience. IT also helps make it less vulnerable to kernel mode malware that could take the system down or steal data. In broader terms, this makes Windows far more like Linux and Unix - and even the MacOS - where the graphics subsystem is a separate component, rather than being hard-wired into the OS kernel."

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  1. Re:Finally, can I turn the GUI off on my server? by theurge14 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Our company is a Windows shop but we do have one Red Hat 7 server run by a Windows admin. When they gave me root access, the first thing I did:


    $ ps -e | grep X | kill -9 `awk '{ print $1 }'`


    Server immediately started running noticeably faster.