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Are we just inventing new stuff which will make our code harder to debug for the sake of making something "new" at this point, or am I just being overly cynical
by josteink 11y ago
Are we just inventing new stuff which will make our code harder to debug for the sake of making something "new" at this point, or am I just being overly cynical?
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoThis idea isn't new at all. In fact, it's largely a conceptual throwback to the days before even batch schedulers where programs had to initialize the machine they were running on. The modern libOS dates from MIT research in exokernels during the 90s, itself an incremental step further of the numerous microkernel projects like SPIN, V-System, Mach, Amoeba and so forth. It's a 1950s idea updated to 21st century standards using 1970s dynamic linking, sometimes but not necessarily meant to be run under a hypervisor.
- rewqfdsa 11y agoWell, hypervisors and OS kernels are largely mirrors of each other, and it doesn't make architecturally to have both. Some people, like the creator of this project, favor squeezing out the OS kernel. Other people, like the LXC people, prefer squeezing out hypervisors and letting OS kernels do it all. Both suck. All software sucks. Software is hell. Every moment is a living nightmare of pain.