microkernel operating systems follow ideas of liberalism. on the contrary, monolitic kernel, is like a leftist idea, where you have big government which has to deal with everything. it can be efficient, though, as dictatorships as well, butif it fails, you’re screwd. microkernel means less central power, not as efficient, but more reliable. #liberalism #operating_systems #os #microkernel #engineering #design
#Tanenbaum presenting #minix3, suggests to kill the #driver and shows how #minix restarts the driver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlOsy0PZZyc
also https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/minix_3_on_arm/
btw, everybody is invited to his farewell party http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/afscheid/index.php in October #23 at Vrije.
#operating-systems #microkernel #posix #video #arm #beagle-board #design