On Wednesday 02 April 2003 09:17 pm, Paolo Falcone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:17:23PM +0800, -JhAzEr- wrote:
> > better yet, do it from scratch!!!
>
> Hehehe... we discussed this at #plug last night... although it might not
> seem fair for the other players that cannot modify the kernels of their
> systems as easily as free operating systems can :-)
Right! The resulting "lean and mean" kernel will be modularized to a degree
where performance and throughput is maximized. The more bloat we strip, the
better.
I can imagine the look on the faces of sysadmins (of OSes that runs default in
runlevel 1) drooling at the Linux server.
What will be even more awe-inspiring is that after hardening the server
thoroughly and running it, the dream team is still able to play OpenGL/SDL
games, rip and play xmms with all the visual plugins in full display. Sort of
like a hardened server still able to run multimedia apps while in the process
of being probed. It is assumed that the multimedia apps have no known
vulnerabilities and will not affect the server's performance significantly.
Is this possible? The server's up, and the PLUG dream team dancing to the tune
of whatever danceable ogg file the server's playing, while at the same time
the server is successfully dropping those malicious packets away.
In contrast to other inferior OSes where the slightest move of a mouse can
render the active server to its knees. Then they wonder why the PLUG dream
team is partying and having a great time.
This looks exciting to me. Is this possible?
curious mikol
--
The master programmer moves from program to program without fear. No
change in management can harm him. He will not be fired, even if the project
is canceled. Why is this? He is filled with the Tao.
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
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