The cargo.lock file is 2200+ lines long. Did they spend a reasonable amount of time auditing these dependencies?
What would be a reasonable amount of time to audit the dependencies?
Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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#13With how buggy their flagship OS has become, why would I trust anything else they release to be better? Or even if it does work well now, why should I expect it to stay that way? Microsoft has burned through all possible goodwill at this point, at least for me.
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Just assume the only thing a human did was name write the initial prompt.
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#15Can it replace Wine to run Windows apps on Linux?
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#16The cargo.lock file is 2200+ lines long. Did they spend a reasonable amount of time auditing these dependencies?
grep 'name = ' ms-litebox-Cargo.lock | wc -l
238
grep 'name = ' ms-litebox-Cargo.lock | sort -u | wc -l
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#17Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#18at first I thought library OS might have meant an OS meant for use at a library.
Honestly far less interesting to know I was wrong.
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#19The cargo.lock file is 2200+ lines long. Did they spend a reasonable amount of time auditing these dependencies?
grep 'name = ' ms-litebox-Cargo.lock | wc -l 238 edit: grep 'name = ' ms-litebox-Cargo.lock | sort -u | wc -l 221
I've always done 'sort | uniq'. Never bothered to check for the the unique flag to sort. Although 'uniq -c' is quite nice to have.
-c, --count
prefix lines by the number of occurrencesRe: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#20With how buggy their flagship OS has become, why would I trust anything else they release to be better? Or even if it does work well now, why should I expect it to stay that way? Microsoft has burned through all possible goodwill at this point, at least for me.
This isn't supposed to replace Windows, and it isn't a GUI desktop operating system at all. I doubt anyone working on this has anything to do with the modern Windows desktop UX.