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Europe Funds Secure Operating System Research

Posted by kdawson on from the software-heal-thyself dept.

narramissic writes "A Dutch university has received a $3.3 million grant from the European Research Council to fund 5 more years of work on a Unix-type operating system, called Minix, that aims to be more reliable and secure than either Linux or Windows. The latest grant will enable the three researchers and two programmers on the project to further their research into a making Minix capable of fixing itself when a bug is detected, said Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor at Vrije Universiteit. 'It irritates me to no end when software doesn't work,' Tanenbaum said. 'Having to reboot your computer is just a pain. The question is, can you make a system that actually works very well?'"

2 of 376 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Wait a second... by polar+red · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I thought Windows was secure. Why not use that? *cough* *cough*

    I thought OpenBSD was secure. Why not use that?

    I thought DOS was secure. Why not use that?

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  2. Re:MINIX guy by sigxcpu · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I agree.
    Just to put things in the right context here is a link to the famous Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate.
    http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/appa.html

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