Re: LCA Lecture about sandboxing desktop apps

James Henstridge via linux-aus <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 21:44, Russell Coker via linux-aus
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I recall that there was a lecture at an LCA some years ago about sandboxing
> many (most?) desktop apps.  I don't recall if it was using Flatpak, Snap,
> Docker, or something else.  I think that the aim was for version control which
> didn't interest me but I am now interested in such things for security.
> Google searches haven't turned up anything on it.  Youtube searches have
> turned up a dozen interesting talks about various container issues but only
> from the last ~4 years and I recall there was a good one earlier than that.
>
> Anyone remember anything like that?

Could it be "Package managers all the way down" from 2017?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ua5aeKKDzU

It's more about the speaker's journey from traditional packaging
systems to the bundled dependencies approach taken by container and
sandbox based packaging systems.

James.
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