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Originally posted by BlackStar View PostCongrats on the necro.
Besides, I won't use Hurd until it runs Mono and C#. Without Mono, my favourite applications won't run so it's useless.
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Originally posted by Ex-Cyber View PostWell, "too much time wasted" is in the eye of the beholder. Someone running a massively multithreaded server workload might care whether a syscall takes 100 microseconds vs. 200 microseconds, but most users wouldn't be able to tell the difference if their lives depended on it.
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Congrats on the necro.
Besides, I won't use Hurd until it runs Mono and C#. Without Mono, my favourite applications won't run so it's useless.
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Originally posted by elanthis View PostStill, hybrid micro-kernels are pretty sweet.
I love how on the (incredibly rare) occasions when my Win7 video driver crashes, my desktop just flickers to black and back and then everything is back to running, no lost apps or anything. Upgrading a driver also requires no restarts. Linux... yeah, Linux. Crashes several times a month if you even think of maybe using your GPU for anything interesting; if even just X goes down all your apps are fu'd; and upgrading anything outside of a text editor usually requires replacing the kernel or half the low-level user-space libraries/daemons and rebooting. Not that you can actually get those updates until ~6 months from now when the distros deign to package up apps' new versions and throw them at you along with that cycle's flavor of desktop UI paradigm. Even though the Linux driver ABI problem and the distro package management problem makes rebooting a near necessity on interesting updates, since interesting updates only happen twice a year nobody notices.
I think that's what you missed.
Don't have many issues with graphics drivers here...
Just about any core Windows library, service, or kernel update takes a reboot; with Linux, libraries just mean running ldconfig (which dpkg/apt/... run automatically), and services are just "service xyz restart".
The kernel still takes a reboot, unless you know what you're doing (hint: ksplice)
The "interesting updates"--that would be like Windows Vista -> Seven.
You're confusing Canonical's representation of reality with how Linux actually works.
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Originally posted by susikala View PostWhat are you doing here, only complaining about Linux and praising Win 7? Don't you think there are then other places where you may pass your time more productively? Seriously.
As for HURD, I don't really see its usefulness. It's like Stallman never gave up on the idea he could release an OS entirely under his dream license.
The (untainted/libre) Linux kernel is GPLv2 (not just his, but a dream license of us all) anyway, and there are also distros which actually entirely consist of free software only. Hurd is currently not even on the high priority projects list of FSF.
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Originally posted by elanthis View PostAssuming HURD gets more than a single-digit number of dedicated developers, it at least has the chance of being better designed and better behaving (if not better performing) than Linux for hardcore users.
Originally posted by elanthis View PostHowever, I doubt it's ever going to be a project taken seriously by the people who matter (hardware vendors and consumers).
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Originally posted by Obscene_CNN View PostUmmm..... The one key flaw to the micro kernel design philosophy is performance. Too much time is wasted passing parameters between functions and different modules.
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Originally posted by Obscene_CNN View PostUmmm..... The one key flaw to the micro kernel design philosophy is performance. Too much time is wasted passing parameters between functions and different modules. Yes some researchers have shown that they can mitigate this to some extent but they can't eliminate it. In fact you can do some of the same tricks in a monolithic kernel to boost its performance further.
Thanks Michael.
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Originally posted by elanthis View PostStill, hybrid micro-kernels are pretty sweet.
I love how on the (incredibly rare) occasions when my Win7 video driver crashes, my desktop just flickers to black and back and then everything is back to running, no lost apps or anything. Upgrading a driver also requires no restarts. Linux... yeah, Linux. Crashes several times a month if you even think of maybe using your GPU for anything interesting; if even just X goes down all your apps are fu'd; and upgrading anything outside of a text editor usually requires replacing the kernel or half the low-level user-space libraries/daemons and rebooting. Not that you can actually get those updates until ~6 months from now when the distros deign to package up apps' new versions and throw them at you along with that cycle's flavor of desktop UI paradigm. Even though the Linux driver ABI problem and the distro package management problem makes rebooting a near necessity on interesting updates, since interesting updates only happen twice a year nobody notices.
Assuming HURD gets more than a single-digit number of dedicated developers, it at least has the chance of being better designed and better behaving (if not better performing) than Linux for hardcore users. However, I doubt it's ever going to be a project taken seriously by the people who matter (hardware vendors and consumers).
Anyway, doesn't Linux have an early-stages form of driver rebooting?
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