Hi Genodians,
I've written some pages[1] in the style of Nix-pills[2] but on the subject of Genode.
Please review and give me your feedback. When its good enough, I ask Genode Labs to publish it on genodians.
1: https://github.com/gwitmond/genodian/ 2: https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/index.html
Hi Guido,
good to see you joining the authors at genodians.org!
Thanks for sharing a preview of your articles.
Admittedly, I cannot quite grasp the audience you are targeting with the two postings. Even though the topics are related to Genode in general, to me they remain somehow disconnected from our actual project.
The supermarket analogy is nice, but overall the tone of both articles remains rather "educational" - like a wise person telling a life lesson to some uninformed kids. As a reader, I would find a tone like "look-what-we-can-do", or "look-what-a-painful/fantastic/surprising-experience-I-just-had" more captivating.
But this is just my individual opinion. If you like to publish them as they are, let us go ahead. They are _your_ postings, after all. ;-)
Cheers Norman
On 2/11/19 2:48 PM, Norman Feske wrote:
Admittedly, I cannot quite grasp the audience you are targeting with the two postings. Even though the topics are related to Genode in general, to me they remain somehow disconnected from our actual project. The supermarket analogy is nice, but overall the tone of both articles remains rather "educational" - like a wise person telling a life lesson to some uninformed kids. As a reader, I would find a tone like "look-what-we-can-do", or "look-what-a-painful/fantastic/surprising-experience-I-just-had" more captivating.
The educational tone is deliberate:
I've noticed that _most_ people in IT, be it programmers, managers don't know about the existence of microkernels or the concept of ambient authority at all.
They've heard about POLA, but can only imagine applying that in a Linux/Windows setting.
And one manager mentioned that "all this microkernel-stuff is academic and will someday show up in Linux".
I want to address people that are interested in computer security and show that some (many?) security and usability problems stem from the architecture. And that there are other architectures offering different trade-offs.
I hope to reach that I can reach that captivating level when we (genode community) can show that computers can both be easy to use and safe against malware. Don't worry, I'll go deeper into Genode/Sculpt too.
My fear is that people might find me too condescending and stop reading.
I've updated those posts and added a third pill. In that one, I describe how users are let down by the ambient authority model.
I'll make em presentable and when I'm done, I ask to get them published.
Cheers, Guido.
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Guido Witmond -
Norman Feske