<story><title>Introducing Qubes 1.0 (&quot;a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS&quot;)</title><url>http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/introducing-qubes-10.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greenyoda</author><text>Brief description from their web site: &quot;Qubes is an open source operating system designed to provide strong security for desktop computing. Qubes is based on Xen, X Window System, and Linux, and can run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers. In the future it might also run Windows apps.&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://qubes-os.org/Home.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://qubes-os.org/Home.html&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing Qubes 1.0 (&quot;a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS&quot;)</title><url>http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/introducing-qubes-10.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hazov</author><text>Not exactly a security guy (I&apos;m actually a mathematician/statistician not exactly a computer engineer) how do these compare in security terms to sandboxing applications or using lxc from the linux kernel?&lt;p&gt;As far as I remember you could use different kernels for Xen VMs and the physical hardware, then the only way to compromise the system would be if I could escalate privileges on the hypervisor, right?</text></comment>