New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @09:17AM from the chasing-the-penguins-out-of-the-sky dept.

New submitter urdak writes "At CloudOpen in New Orleans, KVM veterans Avi Kivity and Dor Laor revealed their latest venture, a new open-source (BSD license) operating system named OSv. OSv can run existing Linux programs and runtime environments such as a JVM, but unlike Linux, OSv was designed from the ground up to run efficiently on virtual machines. For example, OSv avoids the traditional (but slow) userspace-kernel isolation, as on the cloud VMs normally run a single application. OSv is also much smaller than Linux, and breaks away from tradition by being written in C++11 (the language choice is explained in in this post)."

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say... WHAT? by wierd_w · 2013-09-17 09:45 · Score: 0, Troll

Did they really just say that they removed the insolation between kernel and user spaces?
(Re-reads. Yup. That's what they said!)
Oh dear gawds. Do they not realize that this makes their processes naked little unprotected things in a dimly lit room, that are going to be savagely raped and abused by the first rogue process that comes along?
Do they have no conception of why the two spaces are kept apart!?
No thank you, I will refuse to conduct business with any agency that uses this platform, thanks. We have a big enough problem with identity theft and wire fraud as is. I don't want to encourage such a horrifically stupid idea by giving some dumbass led company my business.