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Posted on February 12, 2024 at 02:43 CST by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

By Deanna McElveen

Whether trimming the rose bushes, pulling weeds in the garden, or watering the hanging pots, and when needing to take my eyes off my tiny twin girls, I just plopped them down in the sandbox.

It’s hard to do real-world damage to a castle when it’s only a castle in a sandbox. You can treat programs the same way.

In the sense of software, a sandbox is a way of running software in a protected space (virtualized) so that it can run as normal but can’t do any harm to the host computer.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.07.0, 2024-02-12).

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