News Story Mr. Torvalds, Shrink That Kernel

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Tue, 09/22/2009 - 08:13

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, said at the LinuxCon in Portland yesterday that, "We are not the streamlined, small, hyper-efficient kernel I envisioned 15 years ago," he said.

"Our kernel is huge and bloated. Whenever we add a new feature, it only gets worse." It's time to put Linux on a diet.

What we need is a very small kernel that loads support via external files. Though Linux is a modular kernel, it seems that everything gets...

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