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>There does seem to be very substantial interest in RfL in the kernel Citation needed. >the current state of Linux is unsustainable. I agree. And the issues
by snvzz 2y ago
>There does seem to be very substantial interest in RfL in the kernel
Citation needed.
>the current state of Linux is unsustainable.
I agree. And the issues are fundamental, to do with lack of structure. Doing anything in Linux is harder (in man hours) than doing it on a well-structured system. By orders of magnitude.
But I do not see how to "evolve" a project that big (MLoCs) from chaos towards structure.
Rather, I feel that a rewrite is a much better path.
It could be a fundamentally much better design. A microkernel, multiserver design.
Such efforts include:
seL4 (a formally verified microkernel that also happens to be the fastest available) and multiserver efforts on top of it such as LionsOS or Genode.
Redox (a multiserver OS with its own microkernel, written in Rust).