Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Nov 4 22:11:01 UTC 2013


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.

        Kevin Kofler



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