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Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ?

From Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux
Subject Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ?
Organization Wossamotta U.
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Date 2016-09-28 06:59 -0400
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Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> writes:

> On 2016-09-27, Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:
>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>> The presentation covered by Ars doesn't provide any direction to a
>>> solution.
>>
>> Maybe google's microkernel Fuchsia can be evolved into a 
>> security-oriented OS.
>>
>> Little Kernel > Magenta > Fuchsia > ?
>>
>> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-fuchsia-new-operating-system,32475.html 
>>   Google Is Building A New Operating System From Scratch: 'Fuchsia'
>>
> I looked at that ;)
> It's just toy project as it seems.

The Linux kernel was just a toy at one time too. :-)

Actually, if you want a security-oriented OS, Qubes OS incorporates some
really good ideas. https://www.qubes-os.org/

I saw an article not too long ago that said one company is working on a
similar concept. I'm thinking it was VMWare, but I won't swear to it.

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"Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Yrrah <Yrrah-aol@aol.invalid> - 2016-09-27 16:28 +0200
  Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? jrg <connyank@cox.net> - 2016-09-27 08:25 -0700
  Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-09-27 08:43 -0700
    Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2016-09-27 15:51 +0000
      Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-09-27 09:03 -0700
        Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2016-09-27 18:26 +0200
        Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-09-27 09:35 -0700
          Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2016-09-27 16:43 +0000
            Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-09-28 06:59 -0400
        Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2016-09-27 16:42 +0000
          Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-09-27 18:53 +0200
            Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-09-27 21:07 -0700
              Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-09-28 07:36 -0400
            Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-09-28 10:28 +0000
        Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-28 10:55 +0000
    Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-09-27 08:53 -0700
      Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-09-27 12:39 -0400
    Re: "Linux kernel security needs a rethink" ? Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-09-28 06:56 -0400

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