http://www.osnews.com/story/10306/USENIX_2005_Unix_in_Southern_California_day_two_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:47:14 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Have you tried the chalupas with hot sauce? Chilaquiles are also my favoritos.
Beats the heck out of Taco Bell any day!

What about *real* burritos? oooooooh Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I'm assuming that Apple will release this as part of Darwin. Might be something that other Unixes can take a look at. Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Yes, I think this will be released as part of Darwin. The presenter did say the next version of Darwin should be released on the same day as Tiger. Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? launchd is very nice for desktop use, but when i configure a server, i can determine myself which services i need

can it also auto-restart a deamon when it dies? Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? NFS4 sounds very interesting, especially the firewall traversal and better locking mechanism. it could become a replacement for samba if there would be a good linux and windows implementation Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Would be nice to see IDA Pro disassembler for Linux soon. Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Solaris 9 already had support for extended attributes in cp/mv/tar/cpio using the -@ flag. I wonder if this is compatible with what MacOS X has done. Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I'm enjoying this USENIX 2005 series. Keep them coming.

Hint, Eugenia: Please cut at least half of those Ubuntu and Linspire reviews and look for more articles like this. I'll be happy to give you a few more page views this way... :-)

Cheers Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Glad to hear you have enjoyed the reports. I'm working on my final day's writeup now. Here are some attempted answers to the other comments:

1. launchd on servers: Yes, Apple is positioning launchd as the replacement for all server init scripts and everything that starts background processes. The comment was that you are uncomfortable allowing the server to start things for you because you determine what services you want. My resonse is that you already allow the server to launch stuff for you via init, inetd, rc scripts, etc. Apple just wants to replace that with a new mechanism. I do understand the automatic starting of services can be a bit scary for the administrator, but I think the benefits of automatic configuration, fewer processes, etc. outweigh the negatives. Note also that each user gets a separate launchd for their per-user processes so the security should be ok.

2. NFSv4 as a replacement for samba: I agree the protocol seeoms like it would work. I think the sticking point will be the same as always: no good free or microsoft-provided nfs client software. The Hummingbird nfs client for windows does have nfsv4 support, but you have to purchase licenses. Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments