[KLUG Advocacy] Taroon

Adam Williams advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:55:19 -0400


>From http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1228480,00.asp

Taroon includes support for LVM (logical volume management), a method of
allocating hard drive space into logical volumes that can be easily
resized. During tests, we were pleased with the feature's usability. LVM
first surfaced in the 8.0 release of Red Hat Linux, and Linux rival SuSE
has offered the capability for some time now. Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
and Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris operating systems have similar
volume manager capabilities, so this addition addresses what had been a
competitive disadvantage for Red Hat.

Taroon also supports ACLs (access control lists), which provide
finer-grained control over file permissions in the ext3 filesystem.

The new operating system runs on a kernel based on the 2.4.21 version of
Linux, which includes, among other scalability enhancements, the NPTL
(Native Posix Threading Library).

Taroon ships with version 2.1 of the open source Eclipse Development
Environment. Eclipse requires a Java virtual machine to run, but Taroon
doesn't ship with one.
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Finally ACL support!!!!  But only in the expensive version?