|
Other OS Any other OS such as Microsoft Windows, BeOS, Plan9, Syllable, and whatnot. |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|||
Qubes?
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/re...ened-os-040710
What do you all think of this? (Especially OBSD users...) |
|
|||
Nothing new, just a copy of the design principles of VM/CMS operating system for IBM mainframes. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_%28operating_system%29
Quote:
Theo de Raadt has expressed the view that he does not understand how people can believe that whole armies of programmers, who have been struggling to write secure operating systems and applications for decades, suddenly are capable of writing secure virtualization software.
__________________
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump |
|
|||
As another perspective, not much.
All software has bugs, & all bugs are not equal. Easy bugs can be identified & resolved relatively quickly. Harder & more subtle bugs take more time to surface, identify, & fix irregardless of how astute the development team. One of the reasons the *BSD family is reasonably stable is due to so many people having put the software into real-world situations where hard problems have been found & ultimately resolved. The paint hasn't even dried on the codebase questioned, & it certainly hasn't undergone the test of real-world production environments. Not that this project doesn't have merit, but it appears to be yet another virtualization flavor of the week. Writing virtualization software is difficult & even harder to test. Complicated projects simply take time to settle into some level of stability, & most virtualization implementations available today are still in their infancy irregardless of what their marketing departments want you to believe. |
|
||||
I think this announcement is perfectly timely: http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4605
|
|
||||
Quote:
386 crap. Computer code can never compensate for deficiencies of hardware. It is as simple as that. That is about spot on which you can stop reading. Since I had some time I actually read the whole article. Looks like another nonsense from the church of MAC (mandatory access control) this time brilliantly applied to another hit ultra secure product called virtual machine. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|