Re: [LI] Re: Linux India Digest V1 #542

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:29:53PM +0530, y2k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
>      Could you please answer to my following questions?
> 
>      1. What is monolithic kernel ?
>      2. What is micro-kernel ?
>      3. What is the difference between microkernel and monolithic kernel ?

Start reading at:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/mach/public/www/mach.html

or 

Modern Operating Systems
Andrew S. Tanenbaum 

to learn more about microkernels.

In a nutshell, microkernel seeks to move some of the OS functionality 
into a user level daemon process, thereby reducing the size and
complexity of the kernel.

	-Arun
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