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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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niutech ◴[30 Mar 16 20:10 UTC] No.11392555[source]▶
How does it differ from CoLinux from 2004? http://www.colinux.org
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1. quotemstr ◴[30 Mar 16 20:28 UTC] No.11392719[source]▶
It isn't. This idea has been tried many, many times before. (Most recently, midipix.) It always fails, because a subsystem-isolated program is too isolated from the rest of the system.