Linux is not UNIX. Linux is FLOS.

[vermaden]

Thankfully, video drivers now run in user space.

On MINIX maybe

 

[Savagedlight]

*cough* KMS/DRI *cough*?

On MINIX maybe

My post was a response to the one above it.
I remember reading that Windows 7 (or was it Vista?) enforced graphics drivers to run in user space instead of kernel space, due to the troublesome track record of graphics drivers on the platform. Of course, I can't find the source for this now.. *sigh*

 

[vermaden]

@Savagedlight

You mean this thing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_User_Mode_Driver_Framework

 

[vertexSymphony]

*cough* KMS/DRI *cough*?

He was talking about Windows ...

 

[Savagedlight]

He was talking about Windows ...

*she
And yes, I was talking about Windows.

 

[cpm@]

*she
And yes, I was talking about Windows.

May interest you read a detailed introduction to the User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF).

 

[throAU]

Many drivers in Windows Vista/7 run in user space now. You can have a video driver crash and the system stays up

Screen just goes blank for a bit while the driver/card resets.