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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."
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Here is a great explanation.
You know little about BSD? I beleive you meant: "I know little about UNIX". You run RedHat with KDE don't you?
I will bitch slap the next person to mod this up.
Netcraft has now confirmed: Minix is dead Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Minix community when recently IDC confirmed that Minix accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraftsurvey which plainly states that Minix has mo market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Minix is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin operating system awareness test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Minix's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Minix faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Minix because Minix is dead. Things are looking very bad for Minix. As many of us are already aware, Minix has no market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Minix is the most endangered of all operating systems, having lost 99.99999% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. Juliusz Chroboczek noted it was removed from XFree86 server; there have been no users since 1996. This is consistent with the number of Minix related XFree86 Usenet posts.
All major surveys show that Minix has steadily declined in market share. Minix is very sick and its long term survival prospects are nil. If Minix is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Minix continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Minix is dead.
Minix is dead. oh shit, wrong os
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I just heard the sad news on talk radio. Troubled OS OpenBSD was found dead in it's shanty-town office under the 42nd St. viaduct. There were no further details. Truly a sad loss for OS dilletante-dabbler troll hobbyists the world over.
you are full of shit and obviously don't know what you're talking about ... ... you'd think if a kernel was so bogged down with work, it would drop the most useless data, in your case, everything you type. sadly, it doesn't.
what's that? you just learned a bunch of new words and you want to impress a bunch of nerds on the internet?
"a lot of data for the kernel to keep track of...."
another thing that a kernel does keeps track of is every bit of garbage that you send to slashdot via TCP/IP
Yeah and VI is better than EMACS.
But it loses Niels Provos from coreteam. He "works" for NetBSD now.
I really hate to say it, but:
No, you don't.
Mr. Provos doesn't run aroung thumping his chest saying 'see, I'm important'. Unlike OpenBSD. Or *Linux.
For those that are unfamiliar with OpenBSD, it is a derivative of BSD that focuses its efforts onto creating a secure system without bells and whistles.
Which contrasts Windows' design of bells and whistles without a secure system.