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Re:Apple 'Surprised' by Developer Frustration with Its App R... by dwaite on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:50PM (#28835175)
> This is also disingenuous. For decades before Apple entered the scene, distributed package management was the norm and perfectly functional (while also completely free and transparent to maintain).

Could you point me to this sandboxed/containerized packaging system for third party applications with capability-based entitlements that existed decades prior?

AFAIK the only widespread Linux system which has this today is Android. Microsoft added one in Windows 8. Both those happened after the App Store.

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Re:Apple 'Surprised' by Developer Frustration with Its App R... by smoldesu on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:24PM (#28835728)
Sure, FreeBSD's FireJail has been sandboxing software for decades.
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Re:Apple 'Surprised' by Developer Frustration with Its App R... by heavyset_go on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:57PM (#28845557)
FreeBSD has jails, Firejail is a sandbox that uses features that are native to the Linux kernel.
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Re:Apple 'Surprised' by Developer Frustration with Its App R... by smoldesu on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @12:39PM (#28854375)
My bad, I got the two mixed up. Either of them are effective options for sandboxing though.
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Re:Apple 'Surprised' by Developer Frustration with Its App R... by heavyset_go on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @08:03PM (#28859024)
Yeah, I didn't mean to detract from your overall point that I agree with.

For future reference, FreeBSD has Capsicum which implements capability-based security.

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