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Article #1726Re: Dream OS = Linux
From: David Jeske
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 18:03
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 18:03
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dekorse@indirect.com (James DeKorse) writes:
>: OS/2 has, as i understand, a B-grade security classification (UNIX is
>: C-2; i think VMS is B grade with the security option installed).
> this may be totally incorrect, but I believe that ratings are given to
>individual setups, not packages. I think I've read that a C rating is for
>software, and B is for hardware (or hardware/software). I don't know what
>os2 has received, but I read about one site applying for a B2
>certification. I've read that these certifications were set up in the early
>80's and are now somewhat obsolete.
How appropriate, as many of the OS concepts behind most of the operating
systems mentioned (especially with respect to security) were also designed
in the 80s and are also obsolete :)
--
David Jeske(N9LCA)/CompEng Student at Univ of Ill at Cham-Urbana/NeXT Programmer
CoCreator of the GTalk Chat Software System - online at (708)998-0008
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!dcl-nxt44!jeske From: jeske@dcl-nxt44.cso.uiuc.edu (David Jeske) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux Date: 27 Aug 1995 18:03:06 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <41qc0q$81u@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <3uhptl$1jdt@thebes.waikato.ac.nz> <40n3o8$6ca@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> <40p3tc$a79@student.anu.edu.au> <40snkn$i5r@hydra.Helsinki.FI> <41ot1j$lcv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <41p4lj$cbl@globe.indirect.com> Reply-To: jeske@uiuc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: dcl-nxt44.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV)