Comment by yjftsjthsd-h
1 day ago
Nobody said anything about that. Is there any reason that Xorg couldn't tack on a permission system, other than that it would be inelegant?
1 day ago
Nobody said anything about that. Is there any reason that Xorg couldn't tack on a permission system, other than that it would be inelegant?
There were X11 extensions that implemented access controls, eg in TrustedSolaris.
> Is there any reason that Xorg couldn't tack on a permission system, other than that it would be inelegant?
That's the whole reason for Wayland's existence: such things were not "easily" possible...
Linux+Xorg desktop would be hopelessly insecure for ever because these security features were deemed too hard to the point of not being "worth it". So Wayland was started.
Someone is developing XLibre, and Xorg fork. It may be pulled off, but I doubt it. Making Xorg safe was tried many times for many safety-holes.
> Linux+Xorg desktop would be hopelessly insecure for ever
People keep repeating this claim over and over, but in nearly 30 years as a Linux user and tech news reader, I've seen exactly zero news articles about an epidemic of Linux keyloggers.
> Making Xorg safe was tried many times for many safety-holes
* citation needed