Re: Xpra

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Mario Marietto wrote: 
> ->Thanks. But a full desktop is definitely what I do not want. This is the
> great thing about Xpra: like the good old remote X11, but fast and
> detachable.
> 
> Exactly. A whole new Linux distro can be made following your approach. The
> distro that I have had in mind since ages. A Linux distro that acts as a
> main box with a lot of little boxes inside. Each one is a vm with a
> different OS (FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD and so on). And Xpra installed on each
> virtual machine / distro. And in the main distro,using Xpra you can call
> all the different commands and applications that belong to each distro.


This is Qubes:

https://www.qubes-os.org/



Qubes OS is a free and open-source, security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing. Qubes OS leverages Xen-based virtualization to allow for the creation and management of isolated compartments called qubes.

These qubes, which are implemented as virtual machines (VMs), have specific:

    Purposes: with a predefined set of one or many isolated applications, for personal or professional projects, to manage the network stack, the firewall, or to fulfill other user-defined purposes.
    Natures: full-fledged or stripped-down virtual machines based on popular operating systems, such as Fedora, Debian, and Windows.
    Levels of trust: from complete to non-existent. All windows are displayed in a unified desktop environment with unforgeable colored window borders so that different security levels are easily identifiable.


-dsr-