Re: [Gnewsense-dev] The Linux kernel, no longer as monolithic as it once was?

[Karl Goetz]

On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:43:52 +0300
Niklas Cholmkvist <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> by reading the wikipedia article about Udev the device manager which
> "executes entirely in user space" and also reading somewhere else that
> it is used instead of "devfs' kernel space" , does it mean that the
> kernel linux is no longer as "monolithic" as it once was?

Andy Tanenbaum[0] said so [1], but who'd listen to him about kernels? ;)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
[1] 200MB
http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2007/video/wednesday/Wednesday_0900_Tanenbaum.ogg

kk
> Just a curious question on how to name things.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Niklas


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