Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:47:28 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Module magic Message-ID: <66459.931927648@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:43:39 MDT." <4.2.0.58.19990713204251.044f34f0@localhost>
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XiG continues to support FreeBSD just as it has for years and Thomas Roell, the company founder/chief tech, runs FreeBSD on his own machine. FreeBSD needs to be supported or he can't work. :) If that's not convincing enough, there's also their own web page at http://www.xig.com which you and the rest of the general public are always free to consult. This statement there: "On the other hand, the XFree86 server is free, and ours costs a little. Our ddx module ("graphics driver") for the TNT2 chipset is now available for download - free - for the owners of Accelerated-X Display Server v5. Don't forget, our server works on Solaris x86, too. And FreeBSD" Seems to answer the question to me... - Jordan > Does XAccel for FreeBSD or BSDI still exist? I heard rumors that > they'd dropped all of the BSDs and now only supported Linux. > > --Brett > > At 07:11 AM 7/14/99 +1000, Greg Black wrote: > >Garrett Wollman writes: > > > > > > Are you saying that X does not work when securelevel >= 0 under > > > > FreeBSD? > > > > > > That is correct. X requires direct access to I/O space, which is > > > fundamentally incompatible with the notion of enhanced security. > > > >Can you explain how FreeBSD differs from BSDI in this? I've > >been running various BSDI releases for years with XiG's XAccel > >and securelevel set to 2 with no problems at all, and I had > >hoped to do the same with FreeBSD (albeit with XFree86 rather > >than XAccel). > > > >-- > >Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org> or <gjb@computer.org> > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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