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Europe Funds Secure Operating System Research
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?'"
Not content with starting a flaming shitfest by anonymous declaration with Linus Torvalds (who managed to get where Tanenbaum wanted to be fifteen years ago), Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor at Vrije Universiteit, decides to start a flaming sitfest by anonymous declaration with Theo De Raadt. (who is where Tanenbaum wants to be in fifteen years with this project)
How many times is this old chestnut going to be tossed around?
MS tried a microkernel with NT and its HAL. It didn't really work very well. Most Unix varients don't even bother to try. Perhaps thats the whistle to the cluetrain that Tanenbaum really should listen out for. I can't help thinking he's still a bit cheesed off that Linux took all the glory from Minix and is now trying to up the ante and present minix as a serious OS. Sorry mate, you're 15 years too late, you had your chances and lost - stick to the teaching.
Like what? Minix started before Linux and so far there's been nothing. There's more improvement around HURD (which is in Debian) then there is Minix.
All the EU have done is waste their citizen's money.