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Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by Europa_The_Last_Battle to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/15781466

Am I out of touch?

No, it's the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And since we're on the topic, if we're borrowing things from Android I would love to have the application sandboxing and permissions. I think they'd be a much bigger benefit – to all distros, immutable or not.

Flatpaks and Wayland should fill out this part nicely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This often means unofficial builds that aren't from the developer that sometimes have sandbox specific issues the devs didn't contemplate because they don't actually do flatpaks. If someday the random bob who is neither the original developer nor some trusted individual connected to the distro is hacked they may push out a malware enabled update that pwns all the people who automatically update in short order. This doesn't seem like a security increasing feature.