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Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD

As of the time of writing, there is no real sandboxing technique available to NetBSD. There is chroot , which can be considered a weak sandbox because it modifies the root directory of the process, effectively restricting the process' view of the file system, but it doesn't isolate anything else, so all networking…

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License Haiku

I think that people really use software licenses to express intentions, and don’t really read the details of the licenses. So I think that licenses should be made as simple as possible, so that they don’t disagree with intentions… thus, haiku licensing:

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Zorin OS 16

We’re thrilled to finally share our next giant leap with the release of the Zorin OS 16 Beta today. We paid close attention to your feedback when …