Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >>I've just come to think that such a system would fit nicely into the >>DragonflyBSD attitude to "simplify to scale". >> >> > >Again, it is a nice thing for big programs you don't want to update or >can't update regulary. OOo would be a good candidate for this. For the >rest, it doesn't pay off. > > > If anything, it should be thought further (and some are already pressing in that direction, notably Xen and VMware ESX): self contained single purpose OS instances.
One machine might easily do both web and mailserving, but it would be more secure to isolate the services... A package manager that can do something like that would be truly innovative.
