Darren J Moffat stated: < Robert Milkowski wrote: < >Hello zfs-discuss, < > < > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-June/msg03623.html < > < > Are they so afraid they have to write such bullshit!? < < The most annoying part to me is this bit: < < "2 . ZFS does not support the necessary extended attributes and ACLs to < enable the implementation of SELinux security. Instead Sun prefers the < deployment of its own security software "Trusted Solaris", which is < not FOSS and runs at a cost of "$995 per seat for the Standard Edition < Desktop System to $79,495 for the Certified Edition Data Center < Server."" < < While that is true for Trusted Solaris 8 it is most certainly NOT true < for Solaris Trusted Extensions. The only part of Trusted Extensions < that is not currently under an OSI approved license is the modifications < to CDE because we can't produce that. < < Whats more ZFS DOES have ACLs and DOES have extended attributes. < < SELinux is the new guy on the block, Trusted Solaris is older than all < of Linux! < < The rest is just uninformed licensing related fud. < < More fool them for not getting it!
Some do, see this followup: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-June/msg04266.html This poster even corrects himself on the Trusted Solaris front with another follow up at: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-June/msg04497.html < < -- < Darren J Moffat < _______________________________________________ < zfs-discuss mailing list < zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org < http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Sean. . _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
