freebsd should be rewritten based on microkernel architecture

Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2012 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 17 16:51:25 UTC 2020


On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 12:02, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Before getting into detail in the inline comments it is important to note
> there is small but very important philosophical difference in the design of
> FreeBSD and Linux.   FreeBSD follows the core concept of the Hippocratic
> Oath: "Do no harm" (aka "if it is not broken don't fix it!") and Linsucks
> follows the completely idiotic Facebook mantra of: "Iterate fast and break
> things" (aka Only an idiot would use it in a life critical application.)

Prepubescent fanboi language that doesn't add much to a technical topic.

Translated back into more coherent English, I pretty much like the
1990's "release often, release early" philosophy, which FreeBSD seems
to have adopted with its recent policy of offering more frequent
releases.

-- 
Ottavio Caruso


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