Re: Penalty of SELinux?
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On 09/24/07 12:01, David Brodbeck wrote:
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> On Sep 23, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> On 09/23/07 10:13, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
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>>> My biggest problem is that there is not OS designed to be great for a
>>> stand-alone old small computer. An OS that can both fit on small
>>> resources, and be kept up-to-date without a separate build machine.
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>>> Linux's target is the modern desktop and the focus is on keeping up with
>>> new hardware. The BSDs keep the drivers for old hardware but patches
>>> require building and that building relies on gcc which isn't optimized
>>> for use on old systems.
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>>> So I'll keep looking.
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>> NetBSD.
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> Same basic problem, I think. To apply security patches you have to
> recompile. To recompile, you have to use GCC, which is a resource hog.
> You'd get old and die waiting for "make world" to finish on a machine
> with 64 megs of RAM.
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> One solution, if there are faster machines on the LAN, might be to use
> distcc. But then you're not "really" stand-alone.
RSN, OBSD will be moving from gcc to pcc, which is supposed to be a
*much* faster compiler. Maybe NetBSD will follow suit.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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