When will we get secure desktop OSes?

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  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • firejail

    Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

  • A whitelist/allowlist approach doesn't work for all programs, see this discussion about it: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/2070

  • Wekan

    The Open Source kanban (built with Meteor). Keep variable/table/field names camelCase. For translations, only add Pull Request changes to wekan/i18n/en.i18n.json , other translations are done at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan only.

  • I love Snaps:

    - When there is new security fix, like new version of Node.js, I release new version of Wekan https://wekan.github.io and all those about 9000 servers worldwide are updated automatically soon and safe from that vulnerability. Wekan migrations upgrade database schema etc automatically.

    - When Snap is upgraded, it upgrades very fast, compared to Docker

    - Snap does not have layers taking big amount of disk space, like Docker

    - Snap sandbox works very well. Snaps with strict confinement (like Wekan) can not access files outside of /var/snap/wekan/common directory.

    - Snaps are the reason to select Snap compatible distro https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd .

    Is there any other automatic update system like Snap? AFAIK other update systems require manual steps to update.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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