[plug] Anybody spent any time with Qubes OS?

[ıuoʎ]

I've been using Qubes for a couple of months and it's surprisingly easy to
use (compare to the complexity it has) the only thing I had serious trouble
with is running an Android emulator for development inside one of the
ApoVMs but it wasn't a deal breaker.

Working with VMs especially proxying and segregating networks is very easy.

Haven't tried it with Windows but a guy from work did and is very happy
with it.

It can be heavy on resources I have a laptop with i7 and 16 gigs of RAM and
it still struggles some times (but maybe it's more Chrome than Qubes)

On 29 Nov 2016 6:39 PM, "Richard Meyer" <meyerri at gardenshark.org> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I stumbled across this interestingly different way of doing things
> https://www.qubes-os.org/
>
> It is an interface built on top of XEN that spins up and stops OSes as
> you go - so you can have a "window" running work stuff and another
> "window" running personal stuff, but they are actually different
> instances of whatever you're running (including Windows), which are spun
> up and stopped as required, with very little interaction - unless you
> force it, of course.
>
> I haven't tried it, but it looked like a novel approach.
>
>
> --
> Richard Meyer
>
> As the ghost of a sceptic, I tend to stay pretty quiet.
>
> Linux Counter user #306629
>
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