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Re:Beware of sudo on OS X by comex on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:50AM (#10071898)
CLI is one thing, but for GUI apps, OS X has supported sandboxing for years, enforcing it on all Mac App Store apps against developer outcry.

On Linux, GNOME is working on something that looks quite a bit like how OS X did it:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps

So I think we're actually moving in the right direction, albeit extremely slowly and imperfectly.

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Re:Beware of sudo on OS X by rsy96 on Monday August 17, 2015 @11:27PM (#10077470)
The problem with Mac App Store sandboxing is that it is not configurable and therefore many apps are simply unusable or extremely annoying sandboxed.
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