The Free Software movement never escaped from its origins: the early ‘80s MIT AI Lab. Two things were true in this environment:
Back when most computers had tens of KiBs of RAM and 1 MiB was a hug...
@nprofile1q... TL;dr — Linux has gotten too big.
Any pretense of a security focus is out the window now.
But this crisis isn't all to be placed at the feet of GenAI use: It demonstrates how the monolithic Linux architecture was wrong to begin with.
The future is already arriving in the form of small, trustworthy microkernels and hypervisors that can isolate risk and allow users to retain control of basic resources (the computers) even under heavy attack.
Any pretense of a security focus is out the window now.
But this crisis isn't all to be placed at the feet of GenAI use: It demonstrates how the monolithic Linux architecture was wrong to begin with.
The future is already arriving in the form of small, trustworthy microkernels and hypervisors that can isolate risk and allow users to retain control of basic resources (the computers) even under heavy attack.