Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:57:46 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: How innovative is Linux? |
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 12:02:22AM +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Now if you want really innovative OS work go look in the lab or at > > projects most people have never heard of and don't run. > > Hey, I heard of one. I got a few friends that are sitting > in an IRC channel and have been working on a complete new > OS from scratch for like 10 years now (kernel, filesystem, > graphics drivers, libraries - everything). I consider them > to be totally nuts of course. When I ask them why are you > still doing this? Can't you use linux? Then the answer is > that there are still companies interested in operating > systems like that, precisely because they are not well- > known. It would be pretty hard to exploit vulnerabilities > in such a system (or that is their explanation anyway).
Can you name such companies so that I'll never accidentally buy some of their stocks? ;-)
There are already more than enough operating systems available that are less popular than Linux...
E.g. a good combination of less popular than Linux and a very good security reputation would be OpenBSD.
> Carlo Wood
cu Adrian
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