[openbeos] Re: on SoftwareValet for OBOS
- From: Mark Hellegers <M.H.Hellegers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:28:19 +0100
>> I know what he was saying.
>> Is it now necessary to see the source to be able to argue if or not a
>> design decision is the right one ? That's a new one to me.
>
>It's not necessary but helps a lot. Also most of those arguments against
>BONE were not very sound. The only good one was the unstabilities in the
>early versions... but it was usually accompained with rants about how
>BONE was breaking the microkernel design of BeOS... and those ranting
>about really did not know what they were talking about, since BeOS is not
>a microkernel.
I know BeOS isn't a microkernel and I don't think there's anything wrong
with that.
Putting networking in the kernel is an option, but not the only option.
Now, I don't have any problems with people who think networking should be
in the kernel. They probably have their reasons, but making generalizing
statements about what they think people know is wrong.
Both viewpoints can be succesfully defended. It ultimately comes down to a
design decision and you can't go shouting afterwards that the other
viewpoint is wrong.
Mark
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