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Linus made the right engineering choice when he took the monolithic route in the 90's. However, the technical advantages of that architecture are now moot. So
by indolering 10y ago
Linus made the right engineering choice when he took the monolithic route in the 90's. However, the technical advantages of that architecture are now moot. Sooner-or-later, Google is going to get tired of Linux's shortcomings and build a replacement OS.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoThey seem to have started: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/ https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
- benjamin_mahler 10y agoThey also have some folks working on Akaros. http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu
- sangnoir 10y agoGood luck getting the drivers working for all the esoteric USB/Bluetooth devices in the wild. IMO, Linux's greatest advantage is not it's technical architecture, but the breadth and depth of people and organizations working on it.