Re: [NZOSS-Openchat] Qubes-OS
Thomi Richards <[email protected]>
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Hi, On 21 January 2014 14:04, Slosh <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend tried out SELinux just to see what it was like. IIRC he thought > it was too involved for the average home user: you have to set > permisssions for *every* file on the system (or something). I *think* he > said he thought an appropriate replacement would be AppArmour. > Speaking of AppArmour, one of the cool things we're doing on Ubuntu Touch (the phone OS) is making every application run inside an AppArmour container. I *think* similar work is happening on the desktop side, but TBH I'm not on the right mailing lists to give you any more accurate information. It seems like a pretty fundamental shift towards a much better application security model than anything I've seen previously on Linux (any distribution). Cheers, -- Thomi Richards _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/