The Hurd

[Rafter Man]

Hi

About a month ago, I wrote this mailing-list asking if the FreeBSD developers had 
analysed and learned from the Solaris and Linux kernel. I got some good answers (thank 
you), but now I have one more question.
From the 27/12 too the 29/12 I was at the CCC congress and attended a lecture called 
Unix Redesigned. It was Neal H Walfield who talked about The Hurd:
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd
So my question is: Will FreeBSD take a good look at the Hurd?
I know the last Hurd release was in 1997, but within this year a new release will be 
made.
I don't expect FreeBSD to rewrite the whole kernel, but just too use some of the 
things or make a combination. Fx now users can have more id's and deamons run as 
null.
I know that this will take a lot of work, but I don't have the programming knowledge 
too make these changes myself, but when I am finished with my computer education I 
will financially support FreeBSD and ofcourse write some programs. Until then all I 
can do is make FreeBSD aware of other alternativs and thereby insuring that FreeBSD is 
in front (some of the hurds way of doing things are the way of the future, but overall 
FreeBSD is still better, but can learn a few thing from the hurd).

Best regards
Rafter

PS: If a more badly written version of this mail have already been send, then i 
apologize for that.
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New feutures...........

[Rafter Man]

Hi FreeBSD lovers :-)

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!!!

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.
2. I hope that in the furture the FreeBSD developers will rewrite the system in C++.
3. I hope for even more focuse on security.
4. I will do my part and help FreeBSD the bedst I can.
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