I have a linux box in a production environment that's using a monolithic kernel for security reasons. I want to find out what process is listening on a specific port (587). netstat -aev just tells me ...

Researchers contend almost all Linux OS flaws could be mitigated to less-than-critical severity with an OS design based on a verified microkernel. In an exhaustive study of critical Linux ...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>from apple's darwin page:<BR>Darwin uses a monolithic kernel based on FreeBSD 4.4 and the OSF/mk ...

Disagreements exist about whether or not microkernels are good. It's easy to get the impression they're good because they were proposed as a refinement after monolithic kernels. Microkernels are ...

There's a slow effort underway to allow virtually any part of the kernel to be extracted into its own shared library, thus enabling users to use any alternative subsystem they please. There's a long ...

Generally speaking, 40 is considered “over the hill” in human beings. I’m 35, and as I get closer and closer to the crest of that hill, I can tell you with some certainty that the best is yet to come.