From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 1 17:18:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED0A13FC6 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA26818; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 18:17:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAR1aOs0; Tue Feb 1 18:17:41 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA28960; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 18:17:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200002020117.SAA28960@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 To: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 01:17:37 +0000 (GMT) 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) In-Reply-To: from "Jonathon McKitrick" at Jan 28, 2000 02:24:19 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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