qnx is a monolithic kernel and you haters worship it.

First of all, QNX is an Operating System; second the kernel is actually a microkernel, it’s the second line of wikipedia; third, it’s a RT OS, so WTF has this to do with desktops anyway?

it’s all in the first few lines of wikipedia (if you don’t want to spend five seconds more to actually read it on their website http://www.qnx.com/products/neutrino-rtos/neutrino-rtos.html )

they call it a microkernel but its really a monolithic design which is better for embeded systems since it doesn’t take so long for one part of the kernel to talk to another. in a microkernel it takes forever on a super slow embeded chip. linux is a monolithic kernel for embeded deployment and because its easier to engineer one.

Linux isn’t engineered; it’s (in OS terminology) a co-operative multi-failure. And whatever possessed you to think it’s a RTOS? Although it does form the basis for vastly mutated actual RTOSes — as a micro-kernel, I believe. Such wisdom from one who has yet to learn to program.

You’re copy-pastaing your ideas from ancient lore concerning RPCs. Modern micro-kernels do not work that way, for precisely that reason.

I’ve worked with QNX — indeed, built a custom installation on a CD — and I can assure you that it is, indeed, a microkernel. With a microkernel design. This microkernel design is expressed in the way that tasks talk to each other, which is pretty much universally through message queues. They are very fast message queues. This is what the microkernel is principally designed to do.

You are an idiot, but you’re really designed by Stallmanm, which is better for trolling.

But Linus said “Linux isn’t engineered, it’s grown”. And it certainly is. However, he doesn’t apologize for it like many freetards do.

isn’t the king of freetards, mr. toefungus, a proponent of microkernels (hurd)