Kernel Changes Draw Concern

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 19, 2005 @12:13PM from the embiggening dept.

Saeed al-Sahaf writes "Is the Linux kernel becoming fat and unstable? Computer Associates seems to think so. Sam Greenblatt, a senior vice president at Computer Associates, said the kernel is 'getting fatter. We are not interested in the game drivers and music drivers that are being added to the kernel. We are interested in a more stable kernel.' There continues to be a huge debate over what technology to fold into the Linux kernel, and Andrew Morton, the current maintainer of the Linux 2.6 kernel, expands on these subjects in this article at eWeek."

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Heading Down the Windows Path by Isao · 2005-04-19 12:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

IIRC, this is exactly the decision that improved the performance of, but decreased the stability of Windows NT 3.51; when they added video drivers to the kernel and released NT 4.0.