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Re:Intel Problems by astrange on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @07:57AM (#25845871)
macOS doesn't have a microkernel, but it does have userland drivers and it's pretty good at being macOS/iOS. Linux's oom-killer doesn't work nearly as well as jetsam.
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Re:Intel Problems by john_alan on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:00PM (#25862623)
macOS has a Hybrid kernel with a decent portion being micro components I thought?
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Re:Intel Problems by astrange on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:54PM (#25866871)
Mach started as a microkernel, but when they jammed together Mach and BSD they put it in the same process so it's not really separated anymore.

Recently there are some hypervisor-like things for security, and more things have been moving to userland instead of being kexts. I'd still say it's less of a microkernel than Linux since it doesn't have FUSE.

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