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Reply 2660

Camford

visesh

oooh cheers for that :biggrin:

/me needs to know more, especially before camfo cba to send him SuSe :biggrin:

congrats btw :wink:

The OS supervisor I had was blatantly *****.

Reply 2661

crana9

Camford

Dude. Linux is an OS.

I thought that. But I thought I better not say anything.

Reply 2662

Camford

crana9

I thought that. But I thought I better not say anything.

Living next door to a compsci has rubbed something off on you.

Reply 2663

visesh

Camford

Living next door to a compsci has rubbed something off on you.

but rubbed less than you had hoped.... :frown:

Reply 2664

crana9

Camford

Living next door to a compsci has rubbed something off on you.

I knew it already dumbass.

And - you are one incredibly lucky dumbass. I'm happy for you but also jealous!

Reply 2665

Poc ar buile

Camford

Living next door to a compsci has rubbed something off on you.

Two male threesome, or just Shuai not having perfect idiomatic English...?

:p:

Reply 2666

beeblebrox87

{those who do not speak geek may safely ignore the following post}

Willa

the kernel is a part of an OS, an OS usually has other components to it that run in the user mode. In fact linux pushes quite a few components out into the user area, for modularity and extensibility reasons, but this leads to IPC problems making linux slower than windows when running heavily in demand!

Actually Linux puts relatively few things in userspace compared to microkernel systems like Mach or QNX (which are used in hospital systems etc where any crash or error would be catastrophic). And having things like graphics in userspace the way Linux (and most other Unix systems) does allows much greater flexibility (let users choose what's best for them) and fewer problems with trying to get a huge mess of code to work together (resulting in greater stability).

The concept of an "operating system" is not very well defined, some would argue that an operating system includes e.g. the web browser, while others would argue that anything in userspace is simply an external program running on the OS. At any rate, the usual convention is that "Linux" or "GNU/Linux" is an OS. It most certainly is not a programming language.

Reply 2667

Willa

yes i agree linux isnt a true microkernel, but it still does push quite a few components out into the user space which makes things run slower with the whole IPC issue!

I know what I'm talking about, :p:

Reply 2668

Steveee

Yaaar. Mac OS X is the only true consumer OS. Yaaar.

Looks nice, works well, now actually has native programs and not ****** X11 ports, doesn't crash, and lets the UNIX geeks hack attack it and make it run on their toaster. OK that last bit's a lie. I'm sure if you put a PPC in your toaster you could make a little bit of darwin write "hi europe" on your bread or something, though.

</flame&out-of-depthnessimitudeness>

Oh, and BTW (just joined recently... etc):
_{and I'm hoping that the exams went well enough that this isn't a chicken that may or may not hatch and thus why am I counting it? for it is there?}

PETERHOUSE: ENGINEERING 2005 yarr

Offer: AAA (maths physics chemistry) and STEP 1 maths at grade 2.

Yarr.

</pirate>

Reply 2669

Camford

We really need to curb the nerds... so start with me first.

Reply 2670

Camford

Steveee

PETERHOUSE: ENGINEERING 2005 yarr

Offer: AAA (maths physics chemistry) and STEP 1 maths at grade 2.

Yarr.

</pirate>

What's the point of asking for a 2 in STEP I? :wtf?:

Reply 2671

minimo

GeeK Invasion... :eek:

Reply 2672

visesh

wooo parents coming for a week tomorrow!

Reply 2673

Alaric

Willa

Such as?

A.

Reply 2674

Camford

Alaric

Such as?

A.

Now you are just being harsh.

Reply 2675

Willa

Alaric

Such as?

A.

hey, piss off, i've done my exam, it doesnt matter to me any more...all i know is there was a nice pretty diagram in our notes of servers in the user area rather than in the kernel!