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Millions of lines of code, all running in supervisor mode. One bug is all it takes to compromise the entire system. The monolithic UNIX kernel was a good design in the 60s; Today, we should know better[0][1]. 0. https://sel4.systems/ 1. https://genode.org/
Yeah cause windows is amazing Or maybe macos? Ignore their freebsd parts of course.
Millions of lines of code, all running in supervisor mode. One bug is all it takes to compromise the entire system. The monolithic UNIX kernel was a good design in the 60s; Today, we should know better[0][1]. 0. https://sel4.systems/ 1. https://genode.org/
Yeah cause windows is amazing Or maybe macos? Ignore their freebsd parts of course.
Millions of lines of code, all running in supervisor mode. One bug is all it takes to compromise the entire system. The monolithic UNIX kernel was a good design in the 60s; Today, we should know better[0][1]. 0. https://sel4.systems/ 1. https://genode.org/
Yeah cause windows is amazing Or maybe macos? Ignore their freebsd parts of course.
Imagine if no one outside a select circle ever got to examine the code.
Everything is open source if you're skilled with Ghidra. We call AI models "open source" if you can download the binary and not the source. Why not programs?
Who's "we"? There's been quite a lot of pushback on this naming scheme from the OSS community, with many preferring the term "open weights".
Imagine if no one outside a select circle ever got to examine the code.
Everything is open source if you're skilled with Ghidra. We call AI models "open source" if you can download the binary and not the source. Why not programs?
the weights of a model aren't equivalent to the binary output of source code, no matter how you try to stretch the metaphor.
>why not
because we aren't beholden to change all definitions and concepts because some guy at some corp said so.
It may be just my system, but the times look like hyperlinks but aren't for some reason. It is especially disappointing that the commit hashes don't link to the actual commit in the kernel repo.
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Yes. As far as kernels go, NT was pretty damn good. So is Mach, by the way, if you can afford the microkernel performance overhead.
If you include all the drivers too (which surely makes the comparison more accurate), is that still the case?
The Linux kernel was and is a monstrosity.
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Yeah cause windows is amazing Or maybe macos? Ignore their freebsd parts of course.
NT is actually a pretty good kernel. NTFS and the userland is what is shit.