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Virtually all production servers in the world today are running GNU/Linux. The substantial majority of smartphones run a Linux kernel. I wouldn't say Linux has
by umanwizard 8y ago
Virtually all production servers in the world today are running GNU/Linux. The substantial majority of smartphones run a Linux kernel. I wouldn't say Linux has "had its time".
You may be right that the traditional permissions model is outdated, but it represents only a very small part of what Linux does, and indeed it seems totally unrelated to this project, so I'm not sure what point you're making.
To use the Android example again, it's proof that you can layer a very different permissions model (single-human-user app sandboxing) on top of the Linux kernel.
- filleduchaos 8y agoAndroid uses the Unix permission model heavily - sandboxing is achieved by creating a new user per app, and filesystem, network, etc permissions are managed via user and group IDs just like with Unix. So how is it "very different" (in implementation, not surface appearance)?
- umanwizard 8y agoSurface appearance was my point -- it's possible to create a model that's very different from the user's perspective without changing the underlying model of the kernel.