Re: [OT] Switching kernels without reboot

2000-09-14 Thread USM Bish
Placing an extract of the freshmeat daily newsletter of 12 Sep 2k. This may be the kind of stuff you guys are looking for. Never did try it out myself, so no comments ... If any of you guys give it a try .. do let me know. Perhaps others in the list would also be interested as well. Sounds

Re: [OT] Switching kernels without reboot (was: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-14 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Jason Quigley wrote: > This may be of interest: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html > Thank you but I already knew of it's existance, personally I think a little like Linus Torvalds, monolitic kernels are always gonna be faster then Microkernels. Although a mix of thi

Re: [OT] Switching kernels without reboot (was: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-14 Thread Jason Quigley
This may be of interest: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html Cheers, Jason. --On Thursday, September 14, 2000 14:50 +0200 Leen Besselink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: btw: Is it possible to switch kernels without rebooting. I cannot believe that's possible Actually, I think someone was

[OT] Switching kernels without reboot (continued) (was: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-14 Thread Leen Besselink
I've not been at the OLSymposium but I did remember reading this about Werner Almesberger: http://www.ottawalinuxsymposium.org/2000/booting.html: "Booting Linux: The History and the Future The IA-32 Linux boot process has since 1991 evolved from using boot floppy to Shoelace and now LILO. We will

[OT] Switching kernels without reboot (was: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-14 Thread Leen Besselink
> btw: Is it possible to switch kernels without rebooting. > I cannot believe that's possible Actually, I think someone was working on that. Well, first he wants to make it so you can build an other kernel in userspace or something (this is already possible with special kernels). I think Solaris