Re: Linus replies

[Donnie Jones]

Hello Shap,

Thanks for the article.
> From Shap's rebuttal:
"There are no demonstrated examples of highly secure or highly robust 
unstructured (monolithic) systems in the history of computing."

Maybe I am not understanding the definition of "highly secure" systems, 
but OpenBSD comes to mind for an exmaple of a highly secure, monolithic 
system. 
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Donnie


On Thu, 11 May 2006, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

> 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.
>
> shap