On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:59:16AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > It seems you want to install *BSD and just flag most of your > configuration nochg.
in linux, e2fsprogs have chattr and lsattr (I have not checked for other filesystems, but I expect that some of the other filesystems, but not all, have corresponding flags). These flags become more useful in combination with Linux capabilitues and *BSD securelevels. In linux >= 2.2.x , cababilities (see the package lcap) can be used where BSD securelevels are used (and are much more fine grained that the traditional securelevels of *BSD, but they are not so fine-grained as one might reasonably want. Modern Linux and modern *BSD have also other, more adavanced, security measures). Linux capabilities are also used by linux vservers, which rougly correspond to *BSD jails and Solaris zones. (Linux has also other similar things, but the vservers are the only one for which debian provides pre-compiled kernels) Linux kernels try to accept contibutions from much more people, try to support much more things than *BSD kernels (but also less things in some specialized areas), and correspondingly much more (security and non-security) bugs are found. And so on. Net search engines find many comparations between Linux and *BSD kernels and between GNU and *BSD userland. Most of them are old, incomplete, not so competent and so on. This might be an occasion to add another flamefest to the list. Or to work to the ongoing port of debian glibc based userland to the FreeBSD kernel. -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
