Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 16th Apr 2006 15:36 UTC
Right in between a car crash and Easter, I knew I had to write a Sunday Eve Column. So here I am, digesting vast quantities of chocolate eggs (and I don't even like chocolate), craving for coffee (for me about as special as breathing), with the goal of explaining to you my, well, obsession with microkernels. Why do I like them? Why do I think the microkernel paradigm is superior to the monolithic one? Read on.
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2006-02-15
I had this very debate with RMS about 20 years ago. It's interesting how it keeps resurfacing.
The freedom to do whatever you want to your system is very appealing.
But there are compelling reasons to have programs broken up into separate bits and use the virtual memory hardware to protect the bits from each other: we *all* make mistakes.
Believe me, the time wasted tracking down stray pointer references and other similar bugs that cause subsystem A to corrupt subsystem B is far more criminal than the time wasted fiddling protection states.