KDE Plasma on the "Immutable" Desktop, and an examination of the Kalpa Desktop
MCLD 2002 | Sat 08 Aug 4:30 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Presented by
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Shawn W Dunn
@kalpa@fosstodon.org
https://kalpadesktop.org
Shawn is the Lead Developer of Kalpa Desktop, an openSUSE Board Member, and openSUSE and Fedora package maintainer.
Shawn W Dunn
@kalpa@fosstodon.org
https://kalpadesktop.org
Shawn is the Lead Developer of Kalpa Desktop, an openSUSE Board Member, and openSUSE and Fedora package maintainer.
Abstract
This talk will provide an informative "Tour" of the various projects providing the Plasma Desktop on what are colloquially called "Immutable Desktops"
The underlying technologies may differ, but in general are providing some version of a read-only system base, and atomic updating
We will be looking at a very high level overview of a few projects, including, but not limited to:
- Fedora Kinoite
- KDE Linux
- Aurora
- Kalpa Dekstop
Kalpa Desktop delivers KDE Plasma, on top of an atomic and transactional system
Based on openSUSE Tumbleweed and MicroOS we leverage btrfs snapshots, with a read-only system base to deliver a transactional and atomic upgrade mechanism that helps with long term stability, and allows for easy system rollback.
While many "immutable" systems can make it difficult to modify the system base (such as installing distribution packages, when needed) our transactional system can allow for much of the flexibility of a traditional read-write linux desktop, while also providing the benefits of a read-only system.
This talk will hit some of the highlights of the Kalpa Desktop, and how we're using the Plasma Desktop to provide a unified desktop experience
This talk will provide an informative "Tour" of the various projects providing the Plasma Desktop on what are colloquially called "Immutable Desktops"
The underlying technologies may differ, but in general are providing some version of a read-only system base, and atomic updating
We will be looking at a very high level overview of a few projects, including, but not limited to:
- Fedora Kinoite
- KDE Linux
- Aurora
- Kalpa Dekstop
Kalpa Desktop delivers KDE Plasma, on top of an atomic and transactional system
Based on openSUSE Tumbleweed and MicroOS we leverage btrfs snapshots, with a read-only system base to deliver a transactional and atomic upgrade mechanism that helps with long term stability, and allows for easy system rollback.
While many "immutable" systems can make it difficult to modify the system base (such as installing distribution packages, when needed) our transactional system can allow for much of the flexibility of a traditional read-write linux desktop, while also providing the benefits of a read-only system.
This talk will hit some of the highlights of the Kalpa Desktop, and how we're using the Plasma Desktop to provide a unified desktop experience