[geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 12:50:53 (-0500), Eric Dittman wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)
>
> Of course in the nVidia case we are not talking kernel about
> kernel code but rather XFree86.

Actually for *BSD you _should_ be talking about kernel code....

Having graphics drivers in user-land in XFree86 is what makes it such
swiss cheese from a security point of view....

> I don't see that happening unless Sun buys SGI (which I
> really don't see happening).

I _REALLY_ didn't see Compaq buying DEC, nor even HP buying Compaq.

:-)

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