Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: User vs. Kernel (was: To be smug, or not to be smug, that is , the question) | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 22 Jan 1999 15:52:58 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Jon" == Jon M Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu> writes:
Jon> Soon, probably within a year or two, a decent, open-source Jon> next generation OS like Hurd (Microkernel), FluxOS (polymorphic Jon> virtual machines/nested processes), Dolphin (exokernel), The Jon> Cache Kernel, or another NGOS will be developed to the point Jon> where it can step in and cannibalize the guts out of Linux to Jon> produce a fully-functional NGOS which is suitable for mainstream Jon> use. With the Univerity of Utah OSKit having been released, this Jon> process is well underway and accelerating rapidly. At that Jon> point, then, we all can dump 25+ years of accumulated Unix API Jon> brokenness and move on to a clean, modern, well-designed OS.
Jon> Linux will then exist only as some sort of NGOS legacy Jon> compatibility wrapper, like WINE, and the real Linux can Jon> gracefully fade away into history, its "springboard" role having Jon> run its course. This is the natural way of things. If you want Jon> to "fix" Unix/Linux, do it right and rework everything ground-up Jon> from first principles. Just MHO of course.
Hahahaha, this is clearly the funniest posting on this list this year. It's so funny I just had to print it and put it up on the wall.
John, just one question: if you belive in that rubbish, why on earth do you waste your time on this crap old-fashioned operating system called Linux?
Forget it, people have been trying to design the perfect operating system to replace UNIX the last 10 years and still people keep coming crawling back to something that has proved itself to work. All the cooporate money being put behind Linux now is just not going to be switched to some vapor OS of the month at the rate they come out.
It's quite amazing actually, UNIX was designed so many years ago and still they managed to get so many things right .... quite impressive actually.
Jes
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