[Haskell-cafe] OS design & FP aesthetics

[Creighton Hogg]

On 6/18/07, Creighton Hogg <wchogg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 6/18/07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> > Creighton Hogg wrote:
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> > >     There are lots of things to like about Linux. It doesn't cost
> > money.
> > >     It's fast. It's reliable. It's flexible. It's secure.
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> > > Okay, I'm not sure if I'd agree with the reliable & secure points.  I
> > > mean, relative to what could be done.  I'm a rank amateur when it
> > > comes to OS work but when I've looked at recent papers Linux really
> > > isn't that cutting edge.  I mean, it may be reliable in comparison to
> > > Windows 98 & has less known exploits than any Windows system, but in
> > > terms of how good it *could* be I think there's an awful lot of room
> > > for growth.
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> > Isn't there a lot of room for improvement in *any* product?
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> Well, I'm not just talking about improvement.  I'm talking about things
> like capabilities, self-healing kernels, separation kernels, exo kernels,
> things that may have serious advantages but can't necessarily be strapped on
> to a preexisting kernel such as Linux.
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Bah.  Of course after I say this I get a bad feeling, so I checked the
interwebs and found out that there has been work on incorporating
self-healing into Linux.
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