Re: M$ licenses Unix
--- David Fokkema <dfokkema@ileos.nl> escribió:
> > Should I be concerned that one day in the near future Linux
> > will no longer exist as an operating system?
>
> Depends on how you see it. I don't know what the hurd will do, but if I
> understand the problems with the linux kernel correctly, I would say
> that eventually (not the near future) linux will (must) be abandoned
> because it basically has no internal structure. It is a monolithic
> kernel, whereas various studies have shown that a microkernel is far
> more secure and easier to debug and maintain and develop and ...
>
> >From Tanenbaum's book 'Modern Operating Systems', pg. 56:
> <quote>
> Monolithic systems.
>
> By far the most common organization, this aproach might well be
> subtitled 'The Big Mess.' The structure is that there is no structure.
> <\quote>
>
> According to Tanenbaum, much research is done in microkernel design, of
> which the Mach microkernel (the hurd is based on this) is only the first
> generation...
>
> IIRC, GNU will change to the hurd sometime in the future. This does not
> matter for debian, of course, ;-)
>
> David
>
>
I guess if worst comes to worst we can all start running Debian GNU/BSD in a
pinch.
http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=9298
-Roberto Sanchez
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