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You can forget about Linux in this regard. It is a giant bloated blob where "striping down" is very hard. On the other end there are some promising projects lik
by leccine 12y ago
You can forget about Linux in this regard. It is a giant bloated blob where "striping down" is very hard. On the other end there are some promising projects like http://osv.io/ http://osv.io/ or Minix. Actually Microsoft did a good job on separating graphics drivers from everything else, to the extent when you can just restart the driver when it crashes.
- thegeomaster 12y agoThis reminds me of the Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate [0]. It's interesting to see how a microkernel approach is today more useful for derivative projects and a monolithic blob like Linux is good only for distribution as Linux as a whole. [0]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.minix/wlhw16QWltI[1-25-false] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.minix/wlhw16...
- pjmlp 12y agoWhich was part of the original Windows NT design actually.