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What are some things you would like to see a sort of spiritual successor to? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not a remake or remaster or rerelease of something old, but something inspired or influenced by something either popular or a cult classic. Also this could extend to hardware/tech too, not only media.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Some of the devs around Linus are getting warmed up to the idea of a microkernel. Statistics have shown better boot times and better overall performance. As they put it "guess Tannenbaum was right all along" 😂.

Anyway, it should just be a matter of time now. Linus doesn't like the microkernel idea because it risks stability for the sake of modularity. You maintain the entire code base with a monolithic kernel (drivers, FS, everything), while with a microkernel, you just maintain the kernel, everything else is modular, maintained by someone else, thus, things can go bump in the night. The former is better for stability.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't break userspace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yep, his main motto 👍.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Those are not really the same thing. You can still run something as a microkernel and maintain it as code bases completely under your control and developed in lockstep or even in one giant repository if you really want to.