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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. Merge of two sides? by QBasicer · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Mod me down if you must, but some of Linux's apps are starting to feel more "
    windowsy," and now MS is getting into gear and adding "security" and no seems to be copying X. What's next, they both use the same filesystem?

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  2. Reply to all future Linux-was-first comments... by tereshchenko · · Score: 0, Redundant

    For all you Linux fans which will argue that Linux had that for ages (and Microsoft copied the concept) - back in 1992-1995 graphical system of WindowsNT already was user-mode (in versions 3.1 and 3.5.x).

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  3. Re:Finally, can I turn the GUI off on my server? by masklinn · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Command-line administration of Active Directory and Exchange.

    Why not, is there any operation about them that'd REQUIRE a "true" GUI instead of command-line tools?

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