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> Meanwhile, it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of accomplishing anything. That's only true if you believe that the only possible accomplishment is to
by geezerjay 9y ago
> Meanwhile, it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of accomplishing anything.
That's only true if you believe that the only possible accomplishment is to become the #1 kernel in the world.
Meanwhile, it's a very interesting project and it's a clear proof of technical proficiency. There are not many people in the world who can claim that they've written a kernel, let alone one in a cutting-edge programming language like Rust. I would love to have something like that on CV. Meanwhile, criticizing other people's projects does nothing to advance your career.
- nickpsecurity 9y ago"Meanwhile, it's a very interesting project" I was responding to a comment about doing the whole Linux kernel, not the original project. The original project makes sense. You gave another, good reason for that. "Meanwhile, criticizing other people's projects does nothing to advance your career." Professors grading things, peer review of research, managers reviewing performance, consumer organizations reviewing products... there's a lot of reasons that statement is wrong. I try to critique with an alternative solution presented and citations for both statements where possible. In the Linux case, I've often recommended tech at hardware and compiler level that automatically makes C code safe some of which have been used on FreeBSD and Linux. Alternatively, running it as a VM on top of a secure microkernel with security-critical apps running outside the VM.