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The idea of QubesOS is to create a operating system using many Virtual machines, where each one attends, encapsulates, and isolates, each of the program used in a machine, including those that manage the resources of the same. |
The main premises of this project are the following:
- One of the main problems of current operating systems, whatever, is their inability to isolate the processes that are running on a machine. In this way, if the web browser is compromised, the operating system is unable to protect other user applications and their data.
- On the other hand, it is impractical, impossible? Both to solve all possible bugs in the software and to detect all malicious software. This calls for a new approach to creating secure operating systems. Starting from scratch this task is not close to reality either, so why not use / reuse existing software and model an architecture like the one you want with it?
Xen's hypervisor allowed those ideas to materialize. Virtualization allows you to create isolated containers, virtual machines that stay apart from each other in a better way than the normal processes found in any operating system. In addition to this, it is important to note that nowadays more and more hardware allows virtualization in a more robust and efficient way.
The QubesOS has its backbone supported by 3 elements, the Xen hypervisor, The X system and Linux, all of these OpenSource. Which can be seen quite well in the image of its architecture.
Download QubesOS
More info: QubesOS & QubesOS Wiki
Source: Skeptical
It seems to me that it must be stable if it handles everything in such a modular way. Anyway I have the same suspicion of all; It must be a "sponge" of resources!
xD What is more unstable than a fried pc? ahahahaha
Sounds ... unstable
Ready a good idea to continue protecting your security ...
But with having as many VMs as open applications, doesn't the system, resources and everything else become very slow?
Well, the first thing I should ask is that the title be corrected, since in the rest of the text the name of this distribution "Qubes OS" is correct. Also the download link does not lead to any download. Here I plant the installation guide: http://wiki.qubes-os.org/trac/wiki/InstallationGuide
And now I can comment, which is an interesting project. I do not know if it will have a future or not, although I see serious performance problems in this type of machine. If I have the opportunity I will try it, although I see it difficult considering that they already warn that it will not work in a virtual machine ...
unstable no ... super sucker of resources yes ...
To be honest, I do not know. It would be a matter of testing. Deep down, Fedora and CentOS are not very different.
Cheers! Paul.
I find the project very interesting. I have a question, the site recommends installing the 64-bit version of Fedora 12. My question is whether it would be possible to run it on CentOS. I've been looking for info about it and I didn't find much. Maybe you guys can bring a little light to my existential doubt 😀