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From: "Al Boldi" <a1426z@gawab.com>
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Subject: Linux is Great and the Microkernel
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 00:25:14 +0300
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Linux is Great not because it's Great it's not but because it's GNU.

Linux is monolithic.
That's good for performance, bad for scalability.
The Microkernel is scalable, slower by design.
A monolithic kernel can run a microkernel as a module.

Linux is Great!