> > > 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.
>
> As a gross generalisation in the PC world:
>
> The computers with all kinds of funky SCSI controllers and network
> settings and no `multimedia' drivers are `servers'.
Well, then my home machine is a servstation :-)))) (SCSI, network,
multimedia,
IDE) :)))))
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