Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2004 20:57 schrieb Enrico Weigelt:
people tend to joke about the change in WinNT4 where parts of the graphic driver were moved to kernelspace and point to the "superior" design of linux.
If you dont like it, why not writing something better for the linux kernel
kgi-wip.sf.net, #kgi on irc.freenode.org
also take a look for mentions of kgi on the linux-kernel mailing list. the situation is similar to UDI (you'll get _roasted_ from all sides)
Why not a new kernel branche / inofficial patches ? If the code is good, they'll someday take it into the official distro.
where "someday" might be when epoch equals infinity, depending on who's toes you step on. (see kgi on lkml)
Many good kernel projects were developed outside of the main tree for a very long time, i.e. isdn4linux, capi4linux, alsa, ...
in which way is that different to writing your own kernel, if you have to redesign or improve most of it, anyway - except for bootstrapping a working ReactOS system, which is done by now? this discussion takes place at least two years too late for any constructive outcome.
personalities ?
like on WinNT: Posix+, Win32, OS/2, DOS - all of them are different personalities of the OS in the way that they represent a different interface to client applications, yet building on the same foundation.
patrick mauritz