> Michael Phipps wrote: > >> But you haven't answered the fundamental question. >> Is this so that Mom and Dad and the kids can share a computer? >> Or is this so 100 different people can all telnet into a machine and >> be ABSOLUTLY SURE that no one can stomp anyone else? >> >> Those are 2 *MASSIVELY* different projects with different requirements. > >I would like to add that I have yet to hear a sound justification for why >OpenBeOS should have hard-core UNIX-style multi-user capabilities. There >are quite a number of very solid FREE server OSs out there; I can't think >of what we would bring to the table that they don't already provide -- >BeOS is a desktop/workstation OS, fer cryin' out loud. There are actually quite a few things BeOS brings to the table that the server OS's don't provide. Like the attribute support and the easy to understand system. I'm using BeOS as a server and it works fine, as long as the net_server doesn't crash. Also, real multi-user is more than just a server gimmick. It means that if someone hacks into your machine through whichever port is open, they won't immediately have access to your entire computer. Mark Hellegers