See Fedora's page for the same feature.

In short, there is a system now which gives programs certain capabilities based on tags set in the file system. With this, running as root is not needed for most things.

Um... I'm not really following anything you're saying.

Kernel 2.4 supports LVM, he just isn't using it.

I think you might have misread what he said.

ext3 file systems on regular partitions wouldn't be able to use LVM snapshots, because, well, they're not running on LVM volumes.

Seriously, how can anyone on slashdot _not_ do this?

It's such a simple way to prevent these problems. My credit card companies let me set dollar limits and time limits on these virtual cards. You get to worry much less about fraud, as well as companies billing you when you no longer want them to.

"Blog" was the short, cool way of saying "weblog".

Where's the web?

It may have been an axiom, but really, what did BeOS do (or want to do) that Linux doesn't do now?

The Linux OS has been scaled to thousands of CPUs. Sure, most applications don't benefit from multi-processors, but that'd be true in BeOS, too.

I'd honestly like to know if there is some design paradigm that was lost with BeOS that isn't around today.

Then how do you suppose that email sent to user@gmail.com gets to the Google account? Someone just kindly forwards it?

So true. It'll be quite some time before we can get significant speed increases without significant price increases as well.