alt Hacker NewsFor the love of god, can we please move to microkernel-based operating systems already? We're adding a million lines of code to the linux kernel every year. That's so much attack surface area. We're setting ourselves up for a kessler syndrome of sorts with every system that we add to the kernel.
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wosined • 07/31/2025
I might be wrong, but microkernel also need drivers, so the attack surface would be the same, or not?
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jiehong • 08/01/2025
Naive question: is the Mac OS or iOS a microkernel? They seem to support http3 in their network foundation librairies and I’m wondering if it’s userland only or more.
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01HNNWZ0MV43FF • 07/31/2025
Redox is a microkernel written in Rust
Most of that code is not loaded into the kernel, only when needed.