[systemd-devel] How is desktop container getting along?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 17.10.14 15:47, Leslie Zhai (xiangzhai83 at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi systemd developers,
> 
> I am studying namespace, seccomp, pivot_root, cgroups and other thing behind
> Linux container such as lxc and docker recently.
> 
> But there are only lots of use cases about Linux Server and web application,
> as a Linux desktop geek, I often consider about the disadvantage of
> traditional deployment of Linux desktop application. Krita, for example, an
> awesome digital painting application in KDE`s calligra suite, is depend on
> Qt4, kdepimlibs 4.6.0, kdelibs4 and sort of KDE4 relative libraries; but
> also as a KDE develop, my desktop environment is Qt5 and KF5, so I have to
> git clone KDE4 relative libraries` repositories, then built them by myself
> as what other Linux geeks often experienced ;)
> 
> When I found Desktop Container
> http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2014/07/10/desktop-containers-the-way-forward/
> especially there is Sandboxed applications for GNOME keynote
> http://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/sandboxed-applications-for-gnome by
> Lennart Poettering, it is impressed!
> 
> So I just want to know how is desktop container getting along? what is it`s
> status? is there some git repository or something to follow?

We are mostly working on some basic building blocks still, for example
kdbus (which will bring a long powerful per-app bus sandboxing by
default). We are busy, but it will take some more work before we will
have a comprehensive solution actually in place.

Sorry,

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat