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From: "Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón" <tazok.id0@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: hardened-sources & tp_smapi, firefox-9.0 install stucks
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:40:52
Message-Id: CAD98N_Hj6sGmnHLe6o_jmFSein431SxFjt-3_rFVto4-SH4TZQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: hardened-sources & tp_smapi, firefox-9.0 install stucks by "Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón"
1 Errata: (except the "howto torture university students mechanisms teaching
2 them microkernel based OS" :P).
3
4 is "howto torture university students teaching them microkernel based OS :P"
5
6 I think is better teach them DOS based OS, is faster, cleaner with less
7 sufferment and with a bit of luck they will finish working to Apple.
8 Microsoft or to... OpenBSD.... :-)
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12 El 27 de enero de 2012 19:04, Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón <
13 tazok.id0@×××××.com> escribió:
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15 > Everything that is interesting for the boss is interesting for us (except
16 > the "howto torture university students mechanisms teaching them microkernel
17 > based OS" :P).
18 >
19 > Which is not of interest is asking about opinions of closed source
20 > microkernel based OS and the opinions of Theo de Raadt about if accessing
21 > the RAM memory where his passwords reside by not get cleaned are security
22 > relevant or not, since he is not a referency about security questions (well
23 > he is the only one to say that MAC and memory not cleaned/overwritten
24 > readings are not security relevant).
25 >
26 > I will not start other discussion with you, but please stop acting as a
27 > troll.
28 >
29 >
30 > 2012/1/26 Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk>
31 >
32 >> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:55:02 -0500
33 >> "Anthony G. Basile" wrote:
34 >>
35 >> > Oh dear god, Minix! While I respect what Tanenbaum is up to with Minix
36 >> > and I hope he keeps developing it, the current situation is that it has
37 >> > a very tiny base and it will probably stay that way. I loved the
38 >> > original Minix for teaching (although I've moved on to James Molloy's
39 >> > kernel), but usability is inversely proportional to complexity. If
40 >> > Minix were to span the usability spectrum of a kernel like Linux or BSD,
41 >> > I've got a gut feeling it would hit many of the same insecurity issues
42 >> > despite the theory of separation of subsystems.
43 >>
44 >> Me and my brother won a playbook, out of interest, what do you think of
45 >> QNX?
46 >>
47 >>
48 >