Re: Linus replies

[Espen Skoglund]

[Jonathan S Shapiro]
> I've just put a rebuttal up on the Coyotos site:
>   http://www.coyotos.org/docs/misc/linus-rebuttal.html

> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 22:10 -0400, Donnie Jones wrote:

>> Could someone refute these statements for me?  Or do you agree with
>> Linus' that microkernels are actually not easier to maintain?

> Very important: this isn't what Linux said. What he said is that
> microkernel-based *systems* are not easier to maintain. He wasn't
> making a statement about microkernels themselves. The statement
> about microkernel-based systems is very obviously wrong, and there
> is ample evidence that it is wrong.

Thanks for writing this piece.  A very good rebuttal.  I just want to
point out/ask about a couple ot things:

  o Linus and the people in his camp will certainly not agree with you
    alluding to Linux being unstructured.  Some will probably even
    argue that the Linux kernel is indeed a pure component-structured
    system.

  o You say that it is well known that shared-memory concurency cannot
    be engineered for robust systems.  An explicit or even anecdotal
    reference to nail the point would be nice.  I can't think of any
    such reference, though.  Anyone?

I don't think this rebuttal will actually change the minds of anyone
in the Linux-is-the-answer-to-all camp, but it is definitely a good
read.

        eSk