Hardly a war, a rather rational decision it is – they are progressively moving kernel modules, drivers, file systems and network components into the user space.
It is a foundational design principle of GNU Hurd where everything, apart from the microkernel server, runs in the user space. Minix 3 followed the same principle, and many other microkernel designs as well.
It makes sense from the resilience point of view where a defective kernel module / driver can no longer crash the entire system.
It also makes sense from the security perspective on – the kernel itself is cryptographically sealed off and can't be tampered with.
Previously, the overhead of extra context switches was too high on the old CPU's and hardware, but today's computing devices are fast and the hardware is more optimised, so moving stuff into the user space is viable and incurs a much smaller performance penalty.
> She is accused of plagiarism in her dissertation and at least two of her 11 journal articles. Two sentences from the acknowledgement section of her dissertation even seem to have been copied from another work.
Presuming the allegations are true, I find it interesting that it went unaddressed for so long. The matter was seemingly systematically ignored for almost 30 years until she pissed off the wrong people by allowing students to protest against Israel. Then people went digging for something to use against her and found this plagarism. From the NYTimes:
> After weeks of tumult at Harvard over the university’s response to the Israel-Hamas war and the leadership of its president, Claudine Gay, there was no shortage of interest in a faculty forum with Dr. Gay this week.
> In a town hall held over Zoom on Tuesday with several hundred members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Gay focused on how to bridge the deep divides that had emerged on campus as a result of the war, according to two people who attended and asked for confidentiality because of the sensitivity of the situation.
> Faculty members who spoke up in the meeting were largely positive, and there were no questions about Dr. Gay’s academic record after public allegations of plagiarism. The matter wasn’t even raised, one professor said.
> But by Thursday, new questions surrounding Dr. Gay’s scholarship had shifted to the forefront, after the university said late Wednesday that it had identified two more instances of what it called “duplicative language without appropriate attribution,” from her 1997 doctoral dissertation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/harvard-claudine-gay-p...