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FreeBSD Jails

Posted by michael on from the prison-time dept.

BSD Forums writes "A common security breach involves exploiting one application to gain access to another. Keeping separate applications separate can limit the potential damage. OnLamp's Mike DeGraw-Bertsch explains how FreeBSD's jails can help secure necessary applications."

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  1. Stolen from SCO by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    As far as I know Windows has had native support for Java for ages. Actually since Microsoft and Sun signed an agreement about this back in 1997 that deals with this issue. So the fact that FreeBSD got this is fine but not exactly revolutionary.

  2. Sir by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    BSD is totally, completely and utterly dead.

    I'm so sorry sir.

  3. FUCK BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    People who use *BSD are complete faggots. If their computer had an ass and a penis, they'd probably fuck it.

  4. What a little birdie told me about *BSD... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1. You can not play games on it.
    2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
    3. It lacks a GUI of any note.
    4. There is no support available for it.
    5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
    6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
    7. You have to compile everything and know C.
    8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
    9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
    10.It is dying.

  5. Slow news today? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    jails have been available since what, 3.0-REL? jails are useless if ports are not updated to have them being installed in a jail as an option. OpenBSD comes with apache and bind9 chrooted by default. Btw, the worst part is that the jail code was developed by Poul-Henning, so forget about having patches accepted by him. Fuck you Poul.

    Astro Glass

  6. Bob Hope and BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    It is with a heavy heart that we must report that Bob "I'm still dead" Hope has gone on to join the "B" team. As you all may know, BSD has been part of the "B" team for quite some time.

    The Year of Our Lord 2003 has been a particularly bad year for the "B"s,

    • Bob Hope
    • Buddy Ebsen
    • Buddy Hackett
    • Barry White
    • BSD
    This honored list of dead is but a small token of adieu from the many fans of the deceased.
    These dead were truly some American Icons. They will be missed.
  7. The Failure of *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Of course we can all agree that BSD is a failure, but why did BSD fail Once you get past the fact that BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know BSD keeps losing market share but why Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players Or is it larger than their troubled personalities
    The record is clear on one thing no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for BSD.