The Torvalds vs Tanenbaum Debate | Comuniq

Linux won the world. Did Tanenbaum still win the argument? 30 years of containers, VMs and sandboxes are walls around a kernel with none inside. Team Torvalds or Team Tanenbaum?

  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    The containers are still running on top of a monolithic kernel. The most popular Unix-like microkernel OS doesn’t support containers at all and needs to run Linux in a VM to get them. Linus was right.