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It's an engineering decision : buggy kernel extensions bring down the OS.
by jjtheblunt 5y ago
It's an engineering decision : buggy kernel extensions bring down the OS.
- mbreese 5y agoAgreed. Given the number of times I personally reported a buggy (IT mandated) firewall for crashing my system, I am extremely happy that they moved extensions out of the kernel. The extension makers who wrote poor quality code have only themselves to blame for the situation. Using a USB network adapter (requires for Ethernet on a MacBook) would bring down my system every time the firewall was running. And the stacktraces all included their calls. I’m sure Apple, like me, got tired of getting reports about a few known bad actors.