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2017 Apr 12
5
humor (was Re: OT: systemd Poll)
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at 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
2017 Apr 12
0
humor (was Re: OT: systemd Poll)
...am 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 - t...