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Story: Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?

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Posted by: Ryan Thoryk (Friday 2 July 2004, 10:23 PM)

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This doesn't make any sense. Even though Russinovich is an NT expert, he has no clue about the architecture of Unix operating systems. Linux is a Unix clone; NT and VMS are not (and are not even close). He doesn't seem to mention anything about the difference in API structures in the operating systems, the format of executable files, and the fact that Windows kernel has no resemblence to Unix in any way (except for the fact that it has a monolithic kernel). OS/2 has a kernel design much more closer to NT than Linux, probably because NT is based somewhat on the OS/2 architecture (Microsoft's OS/2 codebase, not IBM's). Linux is not moving closer to Windows; it is actually moving closer to the likes of other enterprise Unix operating systems such as AIX, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, Tru64, etc.

This guy just doesn't get the difference between the Windows and Unix APIs, Unix sockets, the X Window architecture (which started in the mid 80's) and even the X11 network protocol standards, Unix permissions/security models, etc. This guy needs a crash course on Unix history badly.

Minix is a microkernel operating system, while most everything else including Linux is monolithic. Currently the only OS that resembles NT the most is ReactOS, since it's an NT kernel clone. Linux and all other Unix OSes don't even come close.

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Story: Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?

  1. One good thing about this artcle is that it reveil... Lindsey Rockwell
  2. Haha. It is amazing that the people who write thes... Andy Potter
  3. Microsoft owns ZDNet That's the only reasonable ex... Marc Martin
  4. "Windows, said Russinovich, owes a great deal to a... Matthew Foerman
  5. The article says, and I quote: Meanwhile Linux, n... Christos Dimitrakakis
  6. -sigh- another one bites the bling... It's a shame... Lance Kalzus
  7. In some features sure... Why not? In many others... Anonymous
  8. "one of the creators of Digital's VMS Unix operati... Anonymous
  9. Bad technical article. As the article quotes a guy... Jeff Davies
  10. "Windows, said Russinovich, owes a great deal to a... Russell Conner
  11. I tend to agree with the idea that windows is movi... Anonymous
  12. Heck - Linux closer to windows? Wait, now windows... pepe
  13. He has absolutely no clue what he's talking about:... Michael
  14. If the linux operating system is approaching windo... Ben Dischinger
  15. More FUD and lousy editing. I remember why I stopp... JMc
  16. I'm like... lost of words by the sheer bullshit wr... Anonymous
  17. This guy really know nothing... He is comparing th... Carlos Perilla
  18. Well except the fact that one of the kernels has a... ray klassen
  19. what kind of article is this? it's totally mixing... Mike Johnson
  20. If we accept this as true (and it is not), the mai... No more salves
  21. Maybe this article reveals that M$ is making is ug... Swann Tereo
  22. More FUD. Microsoft products are nothing even clos... Stephen Kuhn
  23. How can you have an opinion... without seeing the... Alan Peery
  24. When journalism becomes little more then a means o... Jon Spanos
  25. Hahaha ZDnet at it again. This _IS_ the most reta... Anonymous
  26. The author is certainly moving closer to BULL SHIT... Aj
  27. I'll put my hands up to the VMS Unix slip-up. We s... Matt Loney
  28. point taken!. I think it is better to publish thes... Hassan moallin
  29. A lot of you guys/gals fail to note that this arti... Robin Strahan
  30. Hmmm.... doing a graphical operation on Windows in... Tim Wright
  31. The Linux kernel is far superior to the NT kernel.... Nicholas Donovan
  32. Dave Cutler was a VMS contributor in the early day... Anonymous
  33. RE: Russinovich tech ability Mark Russinovich is t... Anonymous
  34. ASUS just told today INTEL take your chips... Ajit Arora
  35. This doesn't make any sense. Even though Russinov... Ryan Thoryk
  36. All these comments are nothing more than over... Your Momma
  37. Kernel Windowing... The creator of the Minix OS (A... Ryan Thoryk
  38. Some notes to those who write about how unsta... Adam Sandor
  39. Windows NT 3.0 was monolithic instead of mic... X Microsofty
  40. I'm disappointed . . . that a website with a long... Craig Crabtree
  41. I only access ZDNet to have a laugh or two when an... Anonymous
  42. windoze have SMP kernel? tygr
  43. Well folks! Don't forget that this is from ZDnet,... Anonymous
  44. Dont forget who Russinovitch is. He is a major win... ximmoto
  45. My previous comment left too much unsaid: Linux an... Max Lybbert
  46. I'll never understand why X keeps getting dragged... Lance Boyle
  47. Are any of the kiddies whacking this article over... Vance Shearer
  48. Windows' bad ideas: 1. The GUI can't be stopp... Win Doe
  49. To the last thing in the prevoius commen... Adam Sándor
  50. This must be part of the "Get the facts campaign"... German Krackow

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