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Re:Fitting Everything Together by Darkskiez on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:20PM (#31319907)
Re:Fitting Everything Together by pantalaimon on Monday May 09, 2022 @06:35PM (#31320762)
How is this related?
Re:Fitting Everything Together by usr1106 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @08:45AM (#31339135)
Another proposal how distros (or at least a great distro in someone's opinion) should develop???
Re:Fitting Everything Together by mongol on Monday May 09, 2022 @04:47PM (#31319506)
Interesting ideas but I wonder if there will be any distribution apart from Red Hat that would really go all the way to implement these ideas. While it seems to solve many security problems, supporting something along these lines seems very aligned with support contracts.
Re:Fitting Everything Together by pabs3 on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:54AM (#31324608)
ChromeOS and macOS already use this sort of model.
Re:Fitting Everything Together by mongol on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @01:29PM (#31329815)
I don't doubt that. But which Linux distributions would support it? Red Hat I am sure. Perhaps OpenSuse. But any others?
Re:Fitting Everything Together by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:49PM (#31331760)
I can see NixOS doing similar things. It's all about declarative configuration.

Also very useful for embedded Linux distros, an A/B setup can help protect against update corruption due to power loss. If one of the two fails to boot, it can try the other, and retry the update.

Re:Fitting Everything Together by usr1106 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @08:48AM (#31339171)
Does that matter? If the idea flies and someone does the work (maybe the opposite order) a new one could emerge.
Re:Fitting Everything Together by JetSpiegel on Monday May 09, 2022 @08:14PM (#31321650)
It does seem like something geared for the Red Hat model of installing millions of identikit machines.
Re:Fitting Everything Together by greatgib on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @03:56AM (#31337055)
The OS he is describing is an Android phone,and in my opinion this is a nightmare.

Like for exemple having to rebuild everything just to tweak (or fix) something. This is the path to throwable not easily hackable computers...

Re:Fitting Everything Together by usr1106 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @08:43AM (#31339101)
He says he wants it hackable and secure. I don't think he favors lock-in or throw it away when doesn't work.

The dilemma there seems how do you keep it quickly hackable for yourself but difficult to crack for the bad guys. What are your counterproposals if this is a nightmare?