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If you define untrusted software as anything not coming from your distro's official package manager, many people run lots of untrusted software on their Linux s
by infokiller 6y ago
If you define untrusted software as anything not coming from your distro's official package manager, many people run lots of untrusted software on their Linux systems.
Think of PPAs (Debian/Ubuntu/etc), the AUR (Arch/Manjaro), and many other package managers (pip, conda, npm, cargo, etc.).
- sprash 6y agoYou have always the option to put programs that you don't trust into a jail. It just shouldn't be mandatory. Besides, the only good way to solve that problem is namespaces as they are used in Plan9. Sadly Unix/Linux took the wrong turn at some point (probably with the introduction of sockets).
- blaser-waffle 6y agoLookin at you rpmfusion...