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José Maldonado <josemald89 <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> The last days, ArsTechnica publish this new: |
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http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/goodbye-apt-and-yum-ubuntus-snap-apps-are-coming-to-distros-everywhere/ |
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> "Snaps now work natively on Arch, Debian, Fedora, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, |
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> Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu," |
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> Canonical's announcement says. "They are currently being validated on |
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> CentOS, Elementary, Gentoo, Mint, OpenSUSE, OpenWrt and RHEL, and are |
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> easy to enable on other Linux distributions." (Ubuntu will continue to |
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> support deb packages, but developers can choose to package applications |
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> as snaps instead of or in addition to debs.)" |
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> Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages? Why not Flatpak? |
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> Thank you very much for your responses! Bye! :) |
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One word SECURITY? Trust but verify does come to mind. |
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Containers are not exactly the most secure apparatus, imho. |
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"Clair is an open source project for the static analysis of vulnerabilities |
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in appc and docker containers." [1]. So, I want to hear about the robustness |
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of the security on these 'self containerd packages. |
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What exactly creates the codes necessary for the container ? |
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Is their a version that works on gentoo-hardened? |
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Suggestions for firewalling off a system for routine, deep examination |
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and profiling of port activities, would be most welcome. Prima facia, |
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I just have no trust in wonderful ideas from the *buntu crowd, ymmv. |
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Also, it's a really good idea; now maybe *DALE* can get his security |
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VM, in a snap (snapple?, snapit?, snapper?), that is gentoo-hardened |
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blessed? Maybe the snhap designation for secured (Hardeded) snaps? |
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Maybe if it's a hardened, entertainment (video snap) we call them schnapps? |
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I've been bantering about for a couple of years now how clusters (hpc and |
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containers) are going to change everything. Security is the main obstacle |
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now. You know, I'm ready to sip this Kool_aid and ponder the possibilities.... |
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Were are all the security gurus on at on snaps? Do snaps require systemd |
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or are they PID-1 agnostic? |
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James |
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[1] https://github.com/coreos/clair |
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