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> the size of the kernel Is mostly in the hardware support, only a tiny fraction of which is actually active. Linux has a lot of drivers, many of them are crap
by dralley 3y ago
> the size of the kernel
Is mostly in the hardware support, only a tiny fraction of which is actually active. Linux has a lot of drivers, many of them are crap, but it's not obvious to me that Linux would be better off with no driver than a crap driver.
- marcosdumay 3y agoThat tiny fraction is quite huge. Filesystems and networking support are well known problematic areas, the sound system is a chapter by itself, and Linux is full of old, should-be-unused interfaces that attackers successfully use once in a while. Besides, the core part of the kernel is way too big for anybody to read. And any of it can interact with any other part.