Google "worse is better" for a famous paper on the general subject.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 12:51 Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> wrote: > I would google up Andrew Tanenbaum versus monolithic kernel and look back > at the history of this debate. It goes back to 90s - birth of Linux. > > I am not going to judge it theoretically on a principle. Just observing the > real world as it currently is - microkernel security currently comes > primarily from the fact that it cannot do much and it is not used outside > SW research and niche such as "secure" IME (remember that last year). > > The beauty of open source, in my opinion, is diversity and agiliy. So, > there is place for micro kernel OS. > > I am not quite sure that minix is the future direction thought. It has not > been for the last 30+ years. > > ..... > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 10:30 AM Louis Kowolowski <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Sep 13, 2018, at 12:11 PM, Tyrell Jentink <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > I guess I'm concerned that there isn't enough competition to keep the > > > internet safe. I'm concerned that capitalism, and the acceptance of > work > > > flows that "Technically work, and are cheap enough to not want better" > is > > > the enemy at hand... > > > ... > > > > I'm a little unclear how capitalism is related here. If we didn't use it, > > what would we use that would somehow mandate that people use sufficiently > > diverse things to maintain a notion of safety? > > > > We have lots of browsers, but they all have to interoperate to be > > relevant. Enter web assembly, the next way to deliver malware to every > > browser. > > > > -- > > Louis Kowolowski [email protected] > > Cryptomonkeys: > > http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ > > > > Making life more interesting for people since 1977 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
