A small modular part of an operating system kernel which implements its basic features.
〔计算机〕微内核；模块形式核
Example sentencesExamples
This is actually an architectural dispute: Tanenbaum believes in microkernels and Torvalds doesn't.
According to long-running Mac user website MacInTouch, at least one CD distributed by the major label includes a Mac OS X application that purportedly installs a pair of extensions to the operating system's microkernel.
A superior approach is to instead implement a microkernel, or lightweight operating system, designed for the specific purpose of serving data.
Their argument was that, due to their intrinsic design, microkernels' basic functions could be transformed into modules and, thus, loaded and unloaded as needed.
Divorcing a filesystem from the kernel, he says, is the same as microkernels' attempt to split the guts of a system into discrete pieces.
Definition of microkernel in US English:
microkernel
nounˈmīkrōˌkərn(ə)l
Computing
A small modular part of an operating system kernel which implements its basic features.
〔计算机〕微内核；模块形式核
Example sentencesExamples
According to long-running Mac user website MacInTouch, at least one CD distributed by the major label includes a Mac OS X application that purportedly installs a pair of extensions to the operating system's microkernel.
This is actually an architectural dispute: Tanenbaum believes in microkernels and Torvalds doesn't.
Their argument was that, due to their intrinsic design, microkernels' basic functions could be transformed into modules and, thus, loaded and unloaded as needed.
Divorcing a filesystem from the kernel, he says, is the same as microkernels' attempt to split the guts of a system into discrete pieces.
A superior approach is to instead implement a microkernel, or lightweight operating system, designed for the specific purpose of serving data.