Re:Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department
by pcwalton on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @12:06PM
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> Instead of $200 billion in the bank, unspent, shouldn't those devices be reviewed and redesigned until impregnable?
The problem is the Mythical Man-Month. Apple's devices are built on a mountain of ancient C code. XNU is a bizarre Mach/BSD hybrid, built for the sake of expedience. (This is not to bash Apple; most other devices aren't much better.)
Apple has been working to improve the situation, but there's a limit as to how rapidly all those millions of lines of code can be changed.
The problem is the Mythical Man-Month. Apple's devices are built on a mountain of ancient C code. XNU is a bizarre Mach/BSD hybrid, built for the sake of expedience. (This is not to bash Apple; most other devices aren't much better.)
Apple has been working to improve the situation, but there's a limit as to how rapidly all those millions of lines of code can be changed.