Bor - Linux Desktop policy management ( https://getbor.dev/ ).

In short, it unifies the configuration of different desktop components as policies ( dconf, Kconfig, polkit, Chrome, Firefox, etc.. . It's LGPL.

You can check my slides for the upcoming Tuxconf conference this Friday: https://getbor.dev/publications/tuxcon2026/

Cheers! Blago :)

@dreamglider,

I've always missed something like this in the industry, when I was trying to integrate Linux desktops in different organizations. There are tools like Ansible and Foreman, but they are not "out of the box" structured like simple policies. For example, it would be more difficult to run an arbitrary code with Bor, compared to Ansible. It's important for the enterprise compliance and we we never had anything like GPOs in the Linux world.

The current target are the desktop machines. That's why the currently implemented features are the most essential ones - desktop environments (KDE, Gnome), browsers ( Firefox, Chrome), security - Polkit.

Unfortunately, it doesn't manage certificates at the current stage of development. There are no webhooks, but thee audit logs may be exported to a syslog server.

Your internal API to POE is not working :/

It would be good to mention which government in the title :)

If they don’t think about mentioning the country and write in English, we know where they are from.

Heh, I've found this post while installing Gotosocial :D

https://petrovs.info/post/2023-01-12-shaiba/ This is my USB rotary dial. It's always fun with the young people when I bring it to IT conferences.

I bet the reaction was similar to what my teenage kids had when I showed them some VHS tapes I found in storage.

The initial reaction was - What is that? How do you play the video? I happen to have a old VCR in storage and a USB 2.0 capture dongle. Hooked it up and showed them some old family videos. So their final comment was - why is the video quality so bad?

What was their reaction like, for those of us who don't have teenagers at home to repeat the experiment on?

It's generally "how do I dial?", followed by them trying to press the holes in the dial, and, when told to rotate it, they rotate it to dial before picking up the handset.

It might have been similar to your reaction when you saw (depending on your age):

a floppy disk (3.5")

a floppy disk (5.25")

a floppy disk (8")

I'm flattered, but you're only speculating, and at least for me this is not helpful.

It does not tell me what their reaction was, which is a little sad, because I am curious what happens when somebody for whom Facebook is ancient tech encounters video cassettes.

FWIW, I thought 8 inch floppies were weirdly big, but that's just a different form factor. It was normal to use floppies, tape or vinyl records for data and media storage. These days things are magically beamed through the sky in the most normal fashion. I think video tapes may seem a little weirder than just a larger box.

There are reaction videos on YouTube, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kesMOzzNBiQ

(The person I asked originally replied while I was typing the above. Their reply is in a sibling comment to my original question.)

Writing without AI agent assistance? How is that possible?

Cool! It would be even better if it was able to create simple web pages for vintage browsers.

That would violate the do-one-thing-and-do-it-well principle for no apparent benefit. There are plenty of tools to convert markdown to basic HTML already.

Awesome!