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They could be (and are on Illumos and FreeBSD) if only they were designed with that from the start. Linux has always made the mistake of not designing things to
by rhinoceraptor 7y ago
They could be (and are on Illumos and FreeBSD) if only they were designed with that from the start. Linux has always made the mistake of not designing things to be safe and secure from the outset (cgroups/namespaces, btrfs, etc.).
- cannonedhamster 7y agoBSD is also an application desert compared to GNU/linux. It's always going to be a scale between user desires and security needs. BSD is rock solid but moves glacially slow. Most devs need more speed than that. Most users demand it. There's a reason despite the elitist attitude the Arch Illuminati take that people want Arch. It's a really stable bleeding edge release.
- rhinoceraptor 7y agoI assume you're talking about desktop applications? If so, I don't think the advantages of containerization really apply like they do on the server side.
- tekknik 7y agowell that took all of 1 minute: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1087 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1087