Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 22:14:58 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:14 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>
>> [> Lars Seipel wrote:]
>>>> You then basically need all that container stuff just so you can be a
>>>> little less scared at some application developer's broken attempts to
>>>> "enhance your user experience" by installing suid-root helpers or stuff
>>>> like that.
>>>
>>> Which they wouldn't be able to because it'd be sandboxed...
>>
>> That's his point. We need all the overhead of a sandbox just to (attempt to)
>> prevent apps from doing such nasty things, a problem we don't have in the
>> world of trusted repositories.
>
> Wrong.
>
> Nothing prevents users from downloading and running stuff from the web
> right now.  We have no sandbox.

Err "we have no sandbox so adding one would help not not hurt"


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