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diff --git a/microkernel/faq.mdwn b/microkernel/faq.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index fe259f05..00000000 --- a/microkernel/faq.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="Microkernel FAQ"]] - -See also other [[/FAQ]]. - -[[!inline -pages="microkernel/faq/* and !*/discussion" -show=0 -feeds=no -actions=yes -rootpage="microkernel/faq" postformtext="Add a new item titled:"]] diff --git a/microkernel/faq/multiserver_microkernel.mdwn b/microkernel/faq/multiserver_microkernel.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index ca9b2179..00000000 --- a/microkernel/faq/multiserver_microkernel.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 Free -Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="What is a Multiserver Microkernel?"]] - -A Microkernel has nothing to do with the size of the kernel. Rather, it refers -to the functionality that the kernel provides. It is generally agreed that -this is; a set of interfaces to allow processes to communicate and a way to -talk to the hardware. *Software drivers*, as we like to call them, are then -implemented in user space as servers. The most obvious examples of these are -the TCP/IP stack, the ext2 filesystem and NFS. In the case of the Hurd, users -now have access to functionality that, in a monolithic kernel, they could never -use, but now, because the server runs in user space as the user that started -it, they may, for instance, mount an FTP filesystem in their home directory. - -For more information about the design of the Hurd, read the paper by Thomas -Bushnell, BSG: -[[Towards_a_New_Strategy_of_OS_Design|hurd-paper]]. |