-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Xen is basically an OS. You may argue with this, but if it manages > hardware and provides and API to that hardware, it's an OS. It will > eventually grow in size and complexity until it gets like any other OS.
Perhaps...but it doesn't do multi-tasking or memory management or anything like that. > The difference is that Intel *controls* Xen. It can modify its chips > and tell the Xen folks the fast/good/only way of doing stuff. Think DRM > at the hardware level. The Xen I am talking about is open source software by some guys at a university. It supports AMD and Intel equally as far as I can see. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC0DzW9PIYKZYVAq0RApHRAJ9SG3hM9DRoAkfZKH4SqvCI60xT2gCfc9yw bpBsNN+zg5T+WpacbYrw2B0= =u+Hk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
