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LCA: Andrew Tanenbaum on creating reliable systemsLCA: Andrew Tanenbaum on creating reliable systemsPosted Jan 19, 2007 19:35 UTC (Fri) by jbailey (subscriber, #16890)Parent article: LCA: Andrew Tanenbaum on creating reliable systems
I was convinced by ast's comments for a while until I wanted to contribute there. I'd hacked on the Hurd for a while and was thinking that it would be nice to work on a project that actually had momentum.
There are a series of things that kept me from going further:
* A strong resistance of things GPL. To the point where they're not really interested in hearing about bugs compiling things like coreutils.
* A strong rejection of testsuites. They said that they would accept tests, but that if a test ever broke, the test would simply be removed. One of the things that I think is mostly interesting about the Minix architecture is that so much of the system could be build-time tested while being built as a regular user.
* Private development model. Discussions happen around their lab rather than on lists and newsgroups. I started working on an ELF interpretor only to be told that a core dev was reworking this file, and that I should come back in a few months.
I still argue that the Microkernel debate was never lost - simply that to this day, no real contender has ever shown up.
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