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Qubes OS Begins Commercialization and Community Funding Efforts

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129 points detaro | 1 comments | 30 Nov 16 10:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.292s | source

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reidrac ◴[30 Nov 16 13:50 UTC] No.13070609[source]▶

>>13069615 (OP) #

I find annoying when a project identifies itself as an "Operating System" that I didn't know about... until now, because I suspect that it may be a Linux distribution and not a new OS, but I can't tell from the main page.

I understand why (tying to avoid the "yet another Linux distro" stigma), but when you go to "What is Qubes OS?" in https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/ ; they fail to mention that is Linux based.

Well, to be fair this one has a FAQ entry: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/user-faq/#is-qubes-just-another... ; although they try to understate that they use Linux.

If they want me to trust them, they're doing it wrong.

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1. SEJeff ◴[30 Nov 16 14:17 UTC] No.13070852[source]▶

While I entirely agree with you wrt the kernel, the separation and isolation bits they do is new and novel from a general purpose operating system's standpoint. Also, Xen really is a small microkernel that runs ontop of Linux, so their comments on the separation being more secure than if they used KVM actually do have merit. If you want something similar that actually is a different operating system, checkout the Muen Separation Kernel (which is pretty neat tech).