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To: butterdezillion
Linux is Open Source. Before Linux there was this thing called UNIX. UNIX had a "kernel" which was a relatively small set of code that handled the very basics such as allowing users to read and write files.

The Linux "kernel" is outrageously huge. They've decided to put the baby and the bathwater in for no apparent reason. So yes, it is open source, but who the heck is going to search through the millions of lines of code to find any potential soft spots?

12 posted on 09/01/2024 12:02:21 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

You’d just about have to break the oversight project into smaller pieces and have a bunch of people do it.

My son despises all the bloat, does a lot of work with Gnu and Guix


13 posted on 09/01/2024 12:14:37 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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