Re:A reimplementation of NetBSD using a Microkernel [video]
by KaiserPro on Thursday June 18, 2015 @03:52AM
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> And they're not going to ship anything besides what they have to, becasue this is a small embedded computer.
It happens already, to keep hardware costs down. The whole point of linux is that you can pick and choose which userland services to ship... (SSH being a userland service)
> ship a microkernel with proprietary servers for everything, and nothing else?
Whats to stop them now? effort. It costs real money to create propietary programmes from scratch. One of the reasons they would have chosen linux in the first place is that half the work is done for them (decoding libraries, network stacks, hardware interfaces, communications daemons)
It happens already, to keep hardware costs down. The whole point of linux is that you can pick and choose which userland services to ship... (SSH being a userland service)
> ship a microkernel with proprietary servers for everything, and nothing else?
Whats to stop them now? effort. It costs real money to create propietary programmes from scratch. One of the reasons they would have chosen linux in the first place is that half the work is done for them (decoding libraries, network stacks, hardware interfaces, communications daemons)