Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

> but they lack the literal BILLIONS of dollars that has been spent achieving that on other operating systems.

They could have just stepped aside and used one of the alternatives—priceless.

Not to mention it doesn't cost billions to develop a read-only chroot archive, the building blocks are available to combine. Just have to have the humility to choose the most elegant design, which already exist.



Just use the Red Hat tool chain for everything? How does that end up? Subject to the whims of a few guys. Red Hat itself is better from having to compete.

The use of 'just a chroot' thinking brings all the problems and none of the gains.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: