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Re: Linus replies
From: |
Espen Skoglund |
Subject: |
Re: Linus replies |
Date: |
Thu, 11 May 2006 20:49:30 +0200 |
[Jonathan S Shapiro]
> I've just put a rebuttal up on the Coyotos site:
> http://www.coyotos.org/docs/misc/linus-rebuttal.html
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 22:10 -0400, Donnie Jones wrote:
>> Could someone refute these statements for me? Or do you agree with
>> Linus' that microkernels are actually not easier to maintain?
> Very important: this isn't what Linux said. What he said is that
> microkernel-based *systems* are not easier to maintain. He wasn't
> making a statement about microkernels themselves. The statement
> about microkernel-based systems is very obviously wrong, and there
> is ample evidence that it is wrong.
Thanks for writing this piece. A very good rebuttal. I just want to
point out/ask about a couple ot things:
o Linus and the people in his camp will certainly not agree with you
alluding to Linux being unstructured. Some will probably even
argue that the Linux kernel is indeed a pure component-structured
system.
o You say that it is well known that shared-memory concurency cannot
be engineered for robust systems. An explicit or even anecdotal
reference to nail the point would be nice. I can't think of any
such reference, though. Anyone?
I don't think this rebuttal will actually change the minds of anyone
in the Linux-is-the-answer-to-all camp, but it is definitely a good
read.
eSk
- Re: Linus replies, (continued)
- Re: Linus replies, Richard Braun, 2006/05/11
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- Re: Linus replies, Richard Braun, 2006/05/12
- Re: Linus replies, Michal Suchanek, 2006/05/13
- Re: Linus replies, Bas Wijnen, 2006/05/13
- Re: Linus replies, Martin Schoenbeck, 2006/05/11
- Re: Linus replies, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/05/11
- Re: Linus replies, Donnie Jones, 2006/05/11
- Re: Linus replies, Tom Bachmann, 2006/05/11
- Re: Linus replies, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/05/11
- Re: Linus replies,
Espen Skoglund <=
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- Re: OT: protection in SASOS, Espen Skoglund, 2006/05/11
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