I must have misunderstood; I thought linux was a unikernel, versus a microkernel...

Quequau · on March 2, 2023

No, not at all. Unikernels are entirely different.

You can go read more: http://unikernel.org/

I think it's a fairly interesting concept but it's not like they're taking over the world or anything. FWIW, I don't DTrace was as successful as its creators might have wished either.

bcantrill · on March 2, 2023

Linux is also (emphatically) not a microkernel.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...

dekhn · on March 3, 2023

Yes, I had somehow mixed up "monolithic kernel" with "unikernel" in my head.