scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >  It's the classical monolithic kernel vs. microkernel war. There are
> > advantages and disadvantages in both methods.

> Ah ok, so on Windows the kernel includes code to call/use any generic driver 
> (that is not part of the kernel itself), but on Linux the kernel actually 
> includes the drivers.  And that means if you want to add/remove drivers from 
> your system completely, you need to recompile the kernel under Linux.  Is 
> that right?

  Not really, because the linux kernel supports loadable modules. However,
it does support drivers embedded in the kernel as well.

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