Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0 175
Orome1 writes "Joanna Rutkowska, CEO of Invisible Things Lab, today released version 1.0 of Qubes, a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS. It is the most secure option among the existing desktop operating systems — even more secure than Apple's iOS, which puts each application into its own sandbox and does not count on the user to make security decisions. Qubes will offer users the option of using disposable virtual machines for executing tasks they believe could harm their computer. These VMs will be lightweight, easily and extremely speedily created and booted, and would be just as easy to discard."
First covered back in 2010. See some screenshots of the X11 part in action (and they say displaying clients from multiple "hosts" isn't useful...)
Re:And I feel so safe downloading it.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What a specimen (Score:4, Insightful)
And people wonder why women avoid IT..
Re:What a specimen (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:What a specimen (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't see anything in the comment you replied to that indicates poster meant she was attractive or was in any way objectifying or sexist.
In fact quite the opposite when you read who is other two top females are, his mom and the Queen, women he presumably respects for reasons other than sexist reasons.
It read to me like he checked out her significant credentials in her chosen field and was very appropriately impressed.
Re:I Use Words Good (Score:3, Insightful)
What im saying is that if youve cracked through to the hypervisor, they have some serious problems. If you manage to get root access to the box, all bets are off, especially if they have some kind of clustering-- you could potentially provision scads more VMs, and they would be loadbalanced.
Re:And I feel so safe downloading it.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Thankfully, most of the web that does not, isn't useful. Seriously, after adding necessary exceptions for a few days, the overwhelming majority of the web that I care about works just fine with NoScript installed. Most of what doesn't work is stupid, and the vanishingly small remainder is easy enough to whitelist with a click or two. Anything that requires clicking through whitelisting 37 domains to make it work properly, usually just turns out to be an adcrap laden hellhole that doesn't work at all even when it is 'working properly.'
Re:New OS or glorified shell script ? (Score:5, Insightful)
The way Qubes shares composition buffers of X applications over xen shared memory is much nicer than VNC. It is rootless unlike VNC and there is no extra copying of data over a socket so you get nice performance. They also do sound so you can actually watch youtube in a web browser that runs in a disposable VM.