From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 14 11: 3:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C7A37B405 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:03:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.144]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00902; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:03:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA08137; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:03:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA08133; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:03:40 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac4.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:03:40 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Rafter Man Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New feutures........... In-Reply-To: <20011214150349.3305.qmail@linuxmail.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > First af all I would like to thank the FreeBSD developers for making > such a great system! Half a year ago, I had to choose an OS for my > server and the first decision was between Windows and Unix, ofcourse > it didn't take much research to determine that Unix were the better > choice. But now I had to choose from Linux, Solaris and one of the > BSD's, and one of the BSD's is was. After a little reseach I had > nerroed it down to OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and FreeBSD won me over :-) > But enough of this, on to the 2 requests: 1. Is there a way to hide a > user from other users? Fx programs like w, who, users, netstat, top, > ps all show what other users are doing. It would fx be a good idea to > hide root or the admin's activities from other users. If you are > trying to catch a cracker, then you know that he/she if not stupid > enough to login while other users (especial root) are online. But > perhaps this feuture to hide a user already exists? > > 2. After having read "Operating systems - Internals and Design > Principles" by William Stallings I have a few questions. He writes, > among other things, about VM, process and tread design, and compares > Unix SVR4, Solaris and Windows NT. Sometimes he more or less say, that > what fx Solaris have done is the way of the future and other times the > unix way was the bedst. I don't want to discuss why FreeBSD have > designed the kernel as they have, but I know that sometimes when you > work very closely with something, you forget to "look up". I mean, > does FreeBSD analyse the Linux and Solaris kernel, maybe adobt some of > the good thing they have made? I don't expect FreeBSD to rewrite the > kernel, but to learn from Solaris and Linux. If FreeBSD allready do > this, then I am sorry for having troubled you with this mail!!! I think you misunderstood somewhere along the lines. FreeBSD is just as good as solaris and linux in most things, and better in others. > > Best regards > Rafter > > ps: 1. I hope that in the future FreeBSD will remain a servers only > OS. Meaning that I hope the developers don't spend to much time making > games, grafical programs and stuff like gnome/kde/x11. I hope the opposite. I use FreeBSD all day every day as my desktop system, and I'd die if I didn't have the things that you mention above as hoping that they never happen. > 2. I hope that in the furture the FreeBSD developers will rewrite the > system in C++. This will most likely NEVER happen. One of the reasons FreeBSD and UNIX in general are so fast is because they don't have to deal with the overhead of C++. C is smaller and faster. > 3. I hope for even more focuse on security. As far as I know there is a whole project focusing on FreeBSD's security. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message