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https://www.heise.de/en/news/Disney-New-user-agreement-allow...
As far as I can tell, this new user agreement only applies to Germany, at least for now.
BitNet: Scaling 1-bit Transformers for Large Language Models (2023): https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11453
When I grew up, "dropping" something meant "excluding" it; you might drop a player from a team or a feature from a product to exclude it. It turns out that Grandia did actually release in Japan for the PlayStation in 1999.
Am I the only one who struggles with this new, fangled definition of the word "drop"?
- Intel quietly introduced their implementation of amd64 under the name "EM64T". It was only later that they used the name "Intel64".
- Early Itanium processors included hardware features, microcode and software that implemented an IA‑32 Execution Layer (dynamic binary translation plus microcode assists) to run 32‑bit x86 code; while the EL often ran faster than direct software emulation, it typically lagged native x86 performance and could be worse than highly‑optimised emulators for some workloads or early processor steppings.
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This sentence does not give me confidence. A general purpose sandbox should be implemented in the kernel. The kernel syscall interface will always remain available regardless of any sandbox that has been implemented in user space.
EDIT (to answer a few of the replies here):
The description lacks details so it's not entirely clear how Syd is intended to be used or who its target audience is. If this is intended for a security conscious user to wrap their own executables, similar to Firejail, I guess this serves a purpose but I would certainly hesitate to suggest that it is the "most sophisticated sandbox for Linux". We already have kernel-based SELinux, AppArmor, other LSMs and grsecurity which can ensure that every single executable will run in a sandbox regardless of the experience of the end-user, something a user space wrapper cannot achieve. It's not about whether or not it uses kernel facilities but about ensuring that absolutely everything will be sandboxed.
DTrace arrived over 17 years ago with the launch of Solaris 10.
It's not a failure in terms of the number of people that use it, but when the seats are full and the standing passengers are jam-packed like sardines, it's definitely nothing to brag about, and you certainly won't find the rich using it.
Peñalosa also introduced Pico y Placa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_y_placa), a system that does not negatively impact those who can afford to own two cars, and forces the remainder of car owners to use the atrocious public transport system every other day.
The post then says:
> You can also assemble it into the 11 rom files that would have been loaded onto the arcade cabinet’s ROM board.
If I wanted to run this on an emulator, surely the assembled code would be identical, but the use of the word "also" suggests they are doing something else here.
Where can I find the 6809 ports of Windows and Linux, or am I missing something?
This is largely a myth, please provide an namespace-related CVE that has gone unpatched to support your argument. The reason they run as VMs is that hypervisors run on ring 0 and require higher privileges than the kernel, therefore they are naturally more secure. Like Namespaces, Zones and Jails are also managed by their respective kernels. If there were any major hosters running managed services for Zones and Jails, you can bet they would implement them in a similar way.
> Due to CDDL and GPL problems ZFS on Linux will always be hard to use making every update cycle like playing Russian roulette.
You're right in that the CDDL causes complication but I don't consider this to be a compelling reason to use Illumos. Many who want to use ZFS on Linux will use it and get it to work despite the licensing issues and complications.
> Like SMF offers nice service management while not providing half an operating system like systemd.
SMF is relatively nice (apart from the use of XML) and like you, I would not touch systemd barge pole. Despite systemd making a lot noise in major distros, there are plenty alternative distros for those of us who don't want to use it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a Solaris guy, it made my career. I just fear that by dropping SPARC, Illumos have put the final nail in their own coffin.