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I had heard vaguely of the 'microkernal debate' in the past, but never checked it out. Didn't realize the other main participant (aside from Linus Torvalds) was

I had heard vaguely of the 'microkernal debate' in the past, but never checked it out. Didn't realize the other main participant (aside from Linus Torvalds) was Andrew Tanenbaum. Very entertaining/interesting read. (The linked article refers us here: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/appa.html http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/appa.html)

nickpsecurity 10y ago
The Shapiro article in Tannenbaum's link is good too. He's a bright guy that did the EROS project for anyone that doesn't know. Here it is in archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20050514121653/http://www.eros-os.org/papers/IEEE-Software-Jan-2002.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20050514121653/http://www.eros-o... https://web.archive.org/web/20050211090602/http://www.eros-os.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050211090602/http://www.eros-o... Two other good articles are why the EAL4 evaluations that Windows et al were getting are worthless and what a secure, build system might look like. https://web.archive.org/web/20040214043848/http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040214043848/http://eros.cs.jh... https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/sec02/full_papers/shapiro/shapiro.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...