Linked by Rahul on Sat 11th Oct 2008 04:47 UTC
Red Hat We each behave according to our nature. It should come as no surprise, then, to learn that while a virtualization supplier believes that the operating system is, effectively, a feature, an operating system vendor would argue that the converse is true. The philosophical differences between Red Hat and VMware could not have been more apparent during their respective events - September’s VMworld gathering in Las Vegas and yesterday’s Red Hat analyst day held at the New York Stock Exchange.
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PlatformAgnostic
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It's considered a security bug in the system if one non-administrative use of a Windows machine can affect another user. The only thing one user is able to do to another by design is DoS them via excessive CPU and resource consumption. The system as of Vista/WS08 has strong resource quota support, so this scenario can be prevented if you're willing to put up with a significant management burden (I'm not sure how good Windows Server Resource Manager is... never used it).

Can you elaborate on the differences between 'true separation between users, etc' and what Windows provides?

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