[Cialug] Security and the browser

[Nathan C. Smith]

Seems like a good idea to have a sandbox for application virtualization on Windows.

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> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Nuzum
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 2:19 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Security and the browser
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Nathan Stien
> <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Tom Pohl
> <tom at tcpconsulting.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Maybe I'm missing something, but seriously, wine for windows?!?
> >>
> >> http://www.winehq.org/site/download
> >
> > My first impulse was to check the release date, and to my
> surprise, it
> > was not April 1.
>
> Pure speculation... maybe to make it easier for Windows
> developers to see if their code works properly when run with
> the wine libraries under non-windows? I seem to remember that
> developers could target the wine version of the libraries
> while coding and avoid some of the surprises that comes with
> porting to wine.
>
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