Re: Running services without root-privileges

Hello,

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 09:00, Chuck Yerkes wrote:

> I've liked the notion of a linux kernel and BSD everything else
> just to get stallman to shut the hell up about "GNU/Linux".

Yes, I'd fall in love with it immediately.
In fact, I use Slackware 9.1 on my desktop machine. It uses a BSD-style 
init (I hate SysV! Symlinking to tables an giving the links cryptic 
names! I just don't get why Sun, SGI and whoever else was using BSD as 
their system's foundation, switched over to SysV...).
There is CRUX, which I have not tried, but it has BSD-style init and a 
ports-system, too. In fact, I understand there *are no* binary-packages 
for CRUX. And the ports-system, IIRC, does not use dependencies.
As soon as I get a flatrate, I'm going to give it a try.

> Oh wait, hurd is coming along.  It's only been 20 years since
> we've heard it.  Then Sun will just give up solaris, HP and
> IBM will shutdown.  Darl will cancel his actions and get a job
> serving fries and linux and bsd will just fade away.

Don't make fun of the mighty HURD! Once it's finished, it'll surely 
rock. Sure, we might not get to see the day. Neither might our 
children. But our grandchildren, perhaps, or their children. One day, 
mankind will rejoice... 

kind regards,

Benjamin

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