posted by irbis on Tue 18th Mar 2008 21:50
There are many interesting new alternative operating systems: Syllable, Haiku etc. They may promise speed, low system requirements and many good and promising features. However, I've been hoping that also the security of these new operating systems would be discussed more. On the age of Internet can we even imagine a desktop operating system without also a connection to the Internet? With networking comes the need for security.
Although there may be no problem now and although developers may see many more urgent goals, the potential threats of future should be considered too. I think the history of old MS Windows versions at least up to Windows ME shows that network security cannot be easily added into the OS as an afterthought but it should be thought about and build into the OS right from the start.
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I don't have much in-depth knowledge of the other small alt OSes, but with Haiku at least, it seems that the goal is largely "security through simplicity."
IMO, many of the security problems facing larger OSes are a direct result of their complexity - the more complex a system is, the greater the chance that dangerous loopholes will be introduced.