> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
