begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:51:33PM -0700: > Tanenbaum, OS prof wrote a nice paper that was /.'ed today. > He talked about benefits of microkernels for SECURITY. > (You may have seen his debate with Linus on this topic in early 90s.) Yah, he would have failed Linus for his OS design. But then, Linux has moved towards more modularization and away from pure monolithic, hasn't it?
> I'm going through his Minix OS now which is designed with > message passing kinda like HURD. MINIX predates HURD, surely? > The idea is out there that as CPU speeds get faster and security > become more of a concern....eventually these 2 trends will > cross and microkernels + message passing will come into > fashion. Fashion almost always has nothing to do with sensible. > At that point HURD might have a chance at life and RMS > will finally have a system he can call the GNU system > without any flak like he gets for GNU/Linux!!! I'll believe it when I see it. :) -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
