On: Goto and the folly of dogma (2018)

[majkinetor]

> Linux has turned into a nightmare of security vulnerabilities, on par with Windows 95, just as originally prophesied.

What exactly are you talking about ? What was 'originally prophesied' ?

[wahern → majkinetor]

That monolithic kernels are more susceptible to attack because they're less resilient to programming errors. This was one of the arguments in the famous Linux v MINIX debate(s), but the notion that microkernels were more secure goes back to before the term microkernel was even coined (i.e. before 1980s).