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OpenBSD Gains Privilege Elevation
ocipio writes "OpenBSD's systrace now has privilege elevation support. This means binaries no longer need to be suid or sgid an longer. Applications can be executed completely unprivileged. Systrace raises the privileges for a single system call depending on the configured policy."
for a first post
something # post!!!
Snake? What's happened? Snake? Oh, god... Snake? Snaaaaaaaaaaaake!?!
Posting The First aka YourMissionForToday theme song
To the Tune Of Henry The Eighth (Herman's Hermits)
I'm posting the first I am
Posting the first I am I am
I got FP in the story before
I've been modded countless times before
And every time by an imbecile (IMBECILE!)
Usin' words like VAXen and GNU
Cause they hate to stop their circle jerks
Just hear me say FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU!
Second Verse is Different than the first:
I'm YourMissionForToday I am
Two posts a day is where I stand
Can't leave my wit at a high threshold
Cause I post links to a certain hole
I get modded down cause of jealousy (JEALOUSY)
Cause they ain't as funny as I am
I bathe, I can spell, and I'm employed!
I'm YourMissionForToday I am!
Patch available at http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/
Early Post!
First the story about logo segway and a link to geocitiies, and now a story about BSD and a link to a CVS log entry!
And I'm not talkin' about Sacramento!
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
Long Live Multics!
(in case you have no idea:
http://www.multicians.org/multics.html)
(and yes, this is flamebait-- no need to respond)
As artist turned engineer, I simultaneously long for and fear the day when it all becomes content again.
Yawn..
Sorry, did you say something?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will perhaps only be among dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Doesn't any?? READ ?
Nah, too easy.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra