Kernel Changes Draw Concern

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."

Comments

Re:Just my $0.02

[zymano]

Just an idea but why not implement some form of exokernel with linux so you can install or uninstall modules on the fly ?

Another idea which maybe offtopic is the use of another language other than C which causes all the buffer overflows(security problems).

Does OpenVMS have any of the problems Linux or Windows has ? No , because it uses languages like Hp ADA which has bounds checking.

Re:BS

[Surt]

What, there's no midi support in linux?

Re:What about older hardware!

[VoidWraith]

I believe the parent agrees with you, in the sense that the way things are now is best for older computers. Stripping down the kernel like Morton wants would quite possibly mean eliminating legacy support as well.

Unless of course I completely misinterpreted it.

Hire Devlopers, Switch to HURD, or Shut Up

[adavies42]

If CA/whoever don't like the kernel direction, they should hire some kernel hackers of their own, pay someone to finish the HURD (or, god forbid, switch to *BSD) or else *shut up*. Unlike Windows, no one's forcing them to use Linux.