Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linus Torvalds has chimed in on the recently flamed-up (again) micro vs monolithic kernel, but this time with an interesting and unexpected point of view. From the article: 'The real issue, and it's really fundamental, is the issue of sharing address spaces. Nothing else really matters. Everything else ends up flowing from that fundamental question: do you share the address space with the caller or put in slightly different terms: can the callee look at and change the callers state as if it were its own (and the other way around)?'"

Comments

Obvious

[Scott Swezey]

Forgive me if I am wrong, but doesn't windows have a bloated kernel? (I really know nothing about the internals of computers... but it would seem like this makes sense) Obviously it would seem that windows isn't so great when it comes to stability or security... So, lets learn from what windows did wrong, and break things down to small parts that are easier to work with, more secure, and everything everyone else voting for the micro kernel idea said.

Anyways, what do the Ubtuntu guys have to say about this? They seem to be doing pretty well...

Re:Code talks

[JohnFluxx]

Haha. Yes you caught us red handed. _Your_ failure to be able to use words correctly is actually our close mindedness and arrogance.