[svlug] Minimalistic Object Oriented Linux

[Sameer Verma]

This came across on one of the LUG lists from Hyderabad, India. I was
wondering if someone could comment on it. My own understanding of this
matter is extremely limited, but I'd like to know what the implications
would be.

Sameer

-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/



>Minimalistic Object Oriented Linux(MOOL) project aims at redesigning
>the existing linux kernel with minimal set of core OO components.
>Excessive common coupling prevails in existing kernel. Studies have
>shown that common coupling is increasing in successive versions of
>linux. This will make maintainabiltiy of Linux difficult in coming
>years. As a starting step we have tried to reduce the number of global
>variables of the kernel.
>
>As part of the Minimalistic Object Oriented Linux (MOOL) project under
>the the modified kernel for reducing the common coupling in the kernel
>is available for download at http://dos.iitm.ac.in. This modified
>kernel (after removing some global variables) has low coupling
>compared to the original kernel. The performance of the modified
>kernel is measured using standard performance tools (lmbench, nbench,
>contest tools).
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