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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mach Microkernel + FreeBSD + PowerMacs Date: 21 May 1996 06:49:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4nrp1o$917@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <960520191156-rrwood@io.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Roy Wood <rrwood@io.org> wrote: > I prefer FreeBSD to Linux, so I wonder how hard it would be to port over > FreeBSD to run on top of the microkernel, too. If i'm not mistaken, you can run the so-called ``Lites'', a BSD single server for Mach. People used to be excited by the time it appeared (quite some time ago), but it's very silent now. IMHO, ``microkernel'' is more a buzzword than a real gain. In particular, i've heard that the microkernel implementations (at least single servers) suffer from performance problems. They are tech- nically interesting, of course. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)