[ILUG] Windows 98 Replacement?

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bryan O'Donoghue (typedef at eircom.net):
> 
> 
>>For shame : Graphics drivers in ring zero.
> 
> 
> The point is that it was avoidable.
>  
> 
>>Thank god in Linux/BSD land we run our file system drivers, network 
>>drivers, schedulers, ... in userspace...
> 
> 
> The point is that _some_ of this is not.  But thank you for raising the
> matter of filesystem (and block-device) drivers:  Increasingly, we _are_
> starting to see measures to have these in userspace, specifically to
> protect core system functionality against problems in their code.
> 


hmmm.

Bryan: smugley executing "hello world" on his shiny new GNU Hurd 
microkernel.....

any day now...