On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 06:36:54 +0000
Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl> wrote:
Hi,
Steve Litt wrote at 2014-07-11 11:21 -0500:
A bizarre thought just popped into my head, in the form of a
little voice. The little voice told me that if they guys who
controlled the decision to go to systemd had been the decision
makers in 1990, Linux would have a microkernel today.
Regarding history and microkernels, this document about the
reliability features of Minix is very interesting:
http://www.minix3.org/docs/jorrit-herder/osr-jul06.pdf
Hmm, very nice to read. It proves that an inherent stable OS using a
microkernel design is possible. And they even build and tested it in
the wild.
Bonno Bloksma
Yes, that article was surprisingly logical and laid out the case for a
microkernel extremely well. I hereby take back my original statement.
The microkernel is 5K lines of code. I have a feeling that systemd has a
few more lines of code than that.