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Sun's Web Stack

Posted Jul 24, 2008 4:05 UTC (Thu) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804)
In reply to: Sun's Web Stack by flewellyn
Parent article: Sun's Web Stack

s/doing/renaming and supporting/ ~= And it's new and different, because they're doing it now.

They've been working on the CoolStack, which is what Sun Web Stack used to be known as, for more than a year. There are some security benefits to going with Solaris over Linux, like granting Apache permission to bind to port 80 so you don't have to start it as root, but they're not huge.


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Sun's Web Stack

Posted Jul 24, 2008 5:31 UTC (Thu) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]

Not really dude... You can do that on a modern Linux kernel. They added the
per-file-capabilities patch from Serge Hallyn of IBM in a very recent kernel. If you think I'm
making this up:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2....

All you have to do is use the userspace tools and give apache CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE. There is
an example on the page to download the userspace tools here:
http://www.olafdietsche.de/linux/capability/

Solaris had this feature first, but Linux also has it now.

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