Google Ports Capsicum To Linux, and Other End-of-Year Capsicum News 71
An anonymous reader writes "Security researcher Robert Watson at the University of Cambridge has posted a blog article describing recent progress on the Capsicum security model, which will shortly appear in FreeBSD 10.0 enabled by default, and has now been ported to Linux by Google, who have posted patches with the intent to upstream to the Linux kernel."
Capability systems are pretty interesting.
Who came up with the name Capsicum? (Score:3, Funny)
Its a real mouthful!
Re:OMG! (Score:4, Funny)
Can someone explain what exactly Capsicum is?
Capsicum [wikipedia.org]:
Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Its species are native to the Americas, where they have been cultivated for thousands of years. In modern times, it is cultivated worldwide, and has become a key element in many regional cuisines. In addition to use as spices and food vegetables, capsicum has also found use in medicines. ...
The piquant (spicy) variety are commonly called chili peppers, or simply "chilies".
Use milk to calm the burn, not water or beer.