Re: Linus replies

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 14:48 -0400, Donnie Jones wrote:
> Hello Shap,
> 
> Thanks for the article.
> >From Shap's rebuttal:
> "There are no demonstrated examples of highly secure or highly robust 
> unstructured (monolithic) systems in the history of computing."
> 
> Maybe I am not understanding the definition of "highly secure" systems, 
> but OpenBSD comes to mind for an exmaple of a highly secure, monolithic 
> system. 

OpenBSD is pretty good by the standards of commodity operating systems.
The OpenBSD team has done an amazingly good job.

But by the standards of highly secure or highly robust systems, it's not
a serious contender.

shap