"Linux is slowly losing it's appeal for servers. IT is starting to notice that Linux servers are cracked almost as much as Windows servers. A large problem with any OS lacking a central authority to insure that nothing is added before being fully verified as not introducing a vulnerability." -Thomas Beaudry
You know Thomas, you're right! We need a better, new, OS. Especially one that's appealing for servers, because they're the decision makers, after all. We cannot have anything that's "cracked", but, as per the wise words of Leonard Cohen: "Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in…" -Leonard Cohen And here it comes: Why don't we just start over with the seL4 microkernel? Let's put performance and security as the priorities (equal priorities). Let's scrap all of these competing monolithic, sophisticated, OSes that have been in development for decades. We need to throw out all of these working wheels with their own relevant use cases and wonderful communities, and see what we can do with seL4. Clearly. -Katie ________________________________ From: owner-m...@openbsd.org <owner-m...@openbsd.org> on behalf of Thomas M. Beaudry <thomas.k...@gmail.com> Sent: 01 May 2023 18:48 To: Mihai Popescu <mih...@gmail.com> Cc: misc@openbsd.org <misc@openbsd.org> Subject: Re: PC Engines APU platform EOL Attention : courriel externe | external email Linux is slowly losing it's appeal for servers. IT is starting to notice that Linux servers are cracked almost as much as Windows servers. A large problem with any OS lacking a central authority to insure that nothing is added before being fully verified as not introducing a vulnerability. On Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 12:53 Mihai Popescu <mih...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 11:30 AM Martin Schröder <mar...@oneiros.de> > wrote: > > > https://www.pcengines.ch/eol.htm > > The end is near for APUs :-( > > It may be the end for open/free source as we know it. > > The market is moving to ARM for hardware. As for the software, Linux > is preferred - a lot of code, a lot of options, very flexible, very > configurable. > There are other options of course, like RISC IV and BSDs, but those > are just for research and fun (TM). > >
