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i am imagining unvirtualizing Linux. this idea is more about reverse virtualization. i thought about this years ago and maybe someone is even doing it now.
remember the phrase "The network is the computer." this was from Sun Microsystems and scientist John Gage. it came across to describe how we work with all this computer technology with an ever growing number of computers. today there are an ever growing number of clouds.
ChromX (Chromium OS), Exton Build 201011, with Netflix, Spotify, Gimp, Steam and a lot of other apps working fast and responsive (after you have installed Flatpak – “An app store and build service for Linux”)
Despite what I wrote about ChromX the other day I have released a new version of ChromX today.
ABOUT ChromX
This version (201011) doesn’t replace version 190824. Version 190824 of ChromX can still be downloaded (for free). In both versions you can use Flatpak...
Posted 10-10-2020 at 04:01 AM byzeebra Updated 10-10-2020 at 06:11 AM byzeebra
Is GNU/Linux inherently an unsafe system since so many different security modules, tools and models exist, or is it merely an extension that makes it possible to harden a GNU/Linux system beyond comprehension and basically lock down everything, control everything and see and log everything?
Some distroes say that KISS (keep it simple stupid) provides a better security, and they might be right.. It should minimize potential holes, errors and reduce the attack surface. While others include...
Posted 10-09-2020 at 11:31 AM byhazel Updated 03-28-2021 at 02:57 AM byhazel
In most operating systems, a file is simply and solely a named block of data stored in a particular area or areas of a disk drive, which can be retrieved and optionally modified at will. In Unix systems like Linux, quite a few other things besides stored data masquerade as files. Hence the old joke that in Unix, everything's a file. It's not quite true but there is some truth in it. Things that aren't files but behave as if they were make Unix systems much simpler internally than many other OS's....
ChromX (Chromium OS), Exton Build 190824, with Netflix, Spotify, Gimp and a lot of other apps working fast and responsive (after you have installed Flatpak – “An app store and build service for Linux”)
NOTES October 8, 2020
Since ChromX is quite old by now I have checked that everything described in my article at chromx.exton.se works today. And it does! So there is no need for me to upgrade ChromX right now. You can however upgrade Linux BETA (Debian) from Stretch to Buster...
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