Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Sep 2009 15:34 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
During the roundtable discussion at LinuxCon this year, Linus Torvalds made some pretty harsh remarks about the current state of the Linux kernel, calling it "huge and bloated", and that there is no plan in sight to solve the problem. At the same time, he also explained that he is very happy with the current development process of the kernel, and that his job has become much easier.
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There has always been a discrepancy in mindset. Linus has always been pragmatic, and Linux has often been shipped when it is 'good enough'. And apparently it was good enough, since it runs fine on both low-end and high-end systems.
There may be a day when it is not good enough, e.g. when organizations start to demand proven-good kernel subsets for security. But those systems, if they ever come, will not look like C-based UNIX kernels either, and will probably resemble something like Singularity/Midori closer.