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And what about a microkernel environment where device drivers, filesystems, etc. are in user space?
by epboyd 10y ago
And what about a microkernel environment where device drivers, filesystems, etc. are in user space?
- jacquesm 10y agoThey're still part of the operating system. What you are trying to get at is that everything in userspace is not part of the kernel and that is correct. But the kernel does not make a complete operating system. This is also the reason why the whole GNU/Linux thing existed, without the userland that GNU provided the Linux kernel would have been pretty useless.
- kiriakasis 10y agoMy position is a little in between, an OS is the finished you are delivering. Linux is an OS, just a terrible one without any GNU.