http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/08/1058248
http://people.fluidsignal.com/~luferbu/misc/Linus_vs_Tanenbaum.html
http://www.coyotos.org/docs/misc/linus-rebuttal.html - Jonathan Shapiro
quotes
- Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds - Linus, 1992
- "Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project." - Tenanbaum, 1992
"Linus's statement the whole argument that microkernels are somehow more secure' or more stable' is also total crap is simply wrong. In fact, every example of stable or secure systems in the field today is microkernel-based. There are no demonstrated examples of highly secure or highly robust unstructured (monolithic) systems in the history of computing." - Jonathan Shapiro
"The essence of Linus's argument may be restated as Microkernel-based systems make it very hard to successfully use a design approach that is known to be impossible to engineer robustly." - Jonathan Shapiro
ideas:
- Linus : "Software is like sex, is better when it's free. And kernel is like penis, is better monolithic than micro"