Re: proper place to discuss kernel 'bloatedness'?

Marek Habersack (grendel@vip.net.pl)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 01:44:55 +0100 (EET)


On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Lars G. T. Joergensen wrote:

> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard....
> >
>
> Couldn't the kernel be split up into a server kernel and workstation
> kernel?
And where would you split the kernel? What makes a linux machine a server is
not the kernel, but the various daemons SERVING some kind of service. The
kernel "merely" provides a medium for those daemons - networking, file
systems, access to hardware etc.

regards,
marek

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