On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 16:42 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > Your simplification almost covers DOS or perhaps CP/M and misses the > fact that they are also program loaders. That is a serious step > back.... > > In addition to the hardware abstractions there is the issue of policy > enforcement and file system data management... Lets start with the > ATT SUID single bit patent and two data input files /etc/passwd > and /etc/group... > the policy enforcement implied in this single bit and those two files > has had legs. Now we also have SELinux and also network policy NIS, > LDAP, Kerberos... And just about everything you mentioned is not the operating system. Part of a computer system, sure, but outside of, or on top of, the OS. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
