Another article that makes me want Wine to run in a sandbox

[David Gerard]

2009/11/8 Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>:

> I expect that people will do utterly stupid things,
> there's no two ways around that, it's human nature.
> That being the case, I think there are still opportunities
> for providing a safe computing experience without
> compromising the user's convenience.
> Case in point: the sandbox used by the Chromium web
> browser.  It provides a modicum of security without
> getting in the way.   I can easily imagine classes
> of windows apps, say, games, fitting nicely into a
> sandboxed wine environment.  Sure, getting the
> networking right would be a challenge, but for at
> least casual games, it ought to be quite doable.
> The key is to require no user choices -- just do the
> right thing by default.  Then the user's level of education
> or computer skills don't matter.


You'd get good sandboxing running Wine apps as another user. Main
problem then is integration with the user's desktop. Doable, but a
nuisance.


- d.