RemixOS – Android for the desktop

Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by digi_owl on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:16AM (#10863262)

Reminds me of a friend of mine that when provided with a manual for how to do something "that's too complicated, please do it for me".

Meaning that "containers" just becomes a wrapper for things that can already be done, if one just learn to do it rather than pointing and drooling (as someone once referred to the GUI as).

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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by detaro on Friday January 08, 2016 @02:25AM (#10863475)

Who needs restricted user permissions, you can just review the machine code of all your executables before running them ;)

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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by digi_owl on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:32AM (#10863832)

har har har...

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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by netheril96 on Friday January 08, 2016 @03:44AM (#10863697)

Doing it for the humans is exactly the raison d'etre of software.

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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by digi_owl on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:35AM (#10863840)

Yes and no. The problem is that the magic word "container" obscured what is actually being done (cgroups, namespaces, iptables, etc etc etc).

Its one more thing that result in confusion between user and computer about the state of the machine.

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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by jmnicolas on Friday January 08, 2016 @05:20AM (#10863973)

It's a bit extreme, if you follow your logic why even bother with an OS ?!

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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by heywire on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:41AM (#10866142)

I prefer to encode my bits on the disk with a needle and magnet, thank you very much...

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