[geeks] State of the BSDs (Was: [rescue] Transplanting a Sun Fire V210 motherboard - PSU requirements?)

[Mouse]

> I, speaking for myself, consider mandatory access control to be a
> necessary basic feature of any UNIX.

First, Unix does have mandatory access control, and always has had;
it's just not very fine-grained.  (I'm talking about filesystem
permissions and process UID/GID values.)

Second, whether it is necessary is heavily dependent on what you're
doing with the system.  My own systems, for example, are mostly
single-user machines (in the sense of having only one human using
them), on which the access control I mention above is quite sufficient.
Indeed, the only reason I use mouse at all rather than running as root
all the time is limiting the damage done by the inevitable mistakes.

You are, of course, free to consider anything you like essential to
anything.  But we are equally free to disagree with you. :)

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