[ale] kernel/userspace debate

[jason at alltel.net]

At the post ALE meeting nutrition session last night, during the MS
bashing segment of the programme, the news of MS moving IIS (Internet
Information Server, their web server) into the NT kernel was the
subject of much ridicule.

While I agree that kernel space is no place for a web server (or
even telnet, Slowlaris be damned) I cannot help but think that Linux
folks are being a shade hypocritical by so vehemently denouncing this
practice. Was it not our own Linus who sanctioned moving nfs
services into the Linux kernel? How does this issue differ from
that of placing a web server in kernel space?

hmm?


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Jason Boyles <jason at alltel.net>
"Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the
misery of another."