[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon Sep 11 16:04:30 EDT 2023


On 9/4/2023 10:45 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> The biggest advantage for Linux is that they have
> the resources available to code anything - if they find
> out they need a million lines of code to implement something,
> then it will get done.
> 
> The biggest problem for Linux is that they have
> the resources available to code anything - the size
> of the code base is growing quickly. The result is
> complexity. And maybe not everything that at some point
> was deemed a good idea is considered so 5 or 10 years
> later.
> 
> *BSD has much fewer resources available. They may not
> want systemd, but even if they had wanted it, then I don't
> think they could have produced it as fast as Redhat did
> for Linux.

Apropos.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/11/linux_6_6_ksmbd

Linux 6.6 is adding SMB server to kernel.

I don't like the idea.

Arne






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