Introducing Qubes OS

Post by stcredzero » Wed, Apr 07, 2010, 5:00 PM UTC

zppx wrote: post #9

barnaby wrote: post #6

:-) it seems there's a news story every day on HN about a new Linux based OS on the market. I do like this one much better than the North Korean one with the lockdown of user freedoms.

It's not exactly a new "Linux based OS", Joanna is a well known security hacker and so if you think about the reasons them you will see that what she's trying to do is a new security computing model for operating systems based on virtualization, just like Google Chrome was a new model for browser security[1]. Virtualization will be huge in the future, probably we will have common desktop hardware with bare metals hyp…

Post by plesn » Thu, Apr 08, 2010, 8:42 PM UTC

kmavm wrote: post #17

plesn wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could someone point me at a clear explanation of the difference between a micro-kernel and an hypervisor? Maybe I need to see something like the Xen presentation at Fosdem again. Edit: http://www.ok-labs.com/blog/entry/microkernels-vs-hypervisor... is quite ok.

The distinction has never been well-posed, in my opinion. I wrote about it (gulp) almost five years ago here: http://x86vmm.blogspot.com/2005/11/xen-and-redhat.html Both present "virtual machines" to client code. For that matter, so does UNIX, although the UNIX virtual machine has some very complex virtual instructions, like fork(2), exec(2), dup(2), etc. You can crudely map most software platforms on a continuum of…