On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:59:41 -0500 (CDT) "Valeri Galtsev" <galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, April 12, 2017 2:39 pm, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Andrew Holway > > <andrew.hol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> When Windows 2000 came out some called it "bloated pig". Some 6 > >>> years down > >>> the road Linux started catching up ;-) Then we stopped laughing > >>> about Windows. > >>> > >> > >> All in the name of progress.. > > > > I have been told that Windows developers were taught not to > > optimize their code for memory/cpu/etc since those could be solved > > by throwing more hardware at it. Instead they should make clean > > readable code. Not claiming that is exclusive to Windows or the > > clean readable part is followed... > > > > Continuing in the same spirit. Way back SELinux (before it made it > into main stream kernel) had a competitor. LIDS. De-ciphers as Linux > Intrusion Detection System (but name is confusing). Creature of > Purdue University Computer science department. Basically LISD was a > kernel patch that upon end of boot sequence demotes root account to > privileges of user nobody. This makes system impregnable on the fly > (but real pain to administer - any change can only be done as: shut > down, change, boot). I was so impressed, I still remember about it. > Never came to using it though. If it did, it might give big pain to > NSA and friends. But SELinux won, and LIDS never made it into main > stream kernel - to my regret. As far as SELinux is concerned, several > people still think that several (how many?) thousands of extra code > in the kernel may bring more harm than do good. Anyway, the last IMHO > is where "tastes differ". > > Valeri the wikipedia confirms my memory that SELinux is a child of the NSA. Is anyone astonished that this allowed them to hack into Linux? d > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic questions. ----- Ursula Le Guin _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos