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>However that's hard to do when the vast majority of kernel bugs come from vendor drivers, not the upstream Linux kernel, Stoep said.

Doesn't this actually validate Andrew Tannenbaum's argument[1] over 25 years ago when he said monolithic operating systems are inherently insecure and a rethink is required.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.os...

parent drieddust 10 years ago

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