Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 01:17:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick) Cc: jcrosenberg@earthlink.net (John Rosenberg), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), joerg@begemot.org (Joerg B. Micheel), sms@moe.2bsd.com (Steven M. Schultz), pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 Message-ID: <200002020117.SAA28960@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001281418330.65317-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from "Jonathon McKitrick" at Jan 28, 2000 02:24:19 PM
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> Also, the white paper on BeOS claims that with all the new advances in > hardware, modern OS's have too many layers, which they call 'silt', to > allow them to use the hardware effectively. They argue that only > starting from scratch allows full use of modern technology, including > multimedia advances. How can FreeBSD keep up? We don't have kernel > threading and SMP support is still in the works, and most BSD features > are 'add-ons'. Should this be a concern for the future? Unlike BeOS, FreeBSD is multiuser, and supports the concept of credentials. I was asked to do some work porting some things, including NFS, SMB, NetWare, and filesystem support to BeOS, but it has an intrinsic lack of a security model, which can not be easily overcome. It is not suitable as a server OS. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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