GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 25, 2026

• Server

  • Linux Foundation ☛ Docker Commits to Bringing the Sandbox Kit Spec to the CNCF

    Docker and the CNCF will partner on an open spec to make agent permissions portable  Docker Sandbox Kits let you package an Hey Hi (AI) agent together with exactly what it is allowed to do, so anyone can pull the same agent with the same limits, review changes to those limits, and enforce them.

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • GNOME ☛ Juan Pablo Ugarte: Casilda 1.6 Released!

      DnD Release

      A simple Wayland compositor widget for Gtk 4 originally created for Cambalache

      This new version brings Drag&Drop and clipboard support / integration with the host compositor which means you can drag something from a host application and drop it on an application window embedded in a Casilda compositor widget and vice versa!

      After a very rugged GUADEC presentation where I tried to show how to create simple Gtk application from slides made with Cambalache using a Casilda compositor to embed GNOME Builder and Cambalache itself I decided to fix all the issues I found so I could redo the presentation and upload it as a video.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Carl Svensson ☛ Amiga Screens: A Primer

    One of the unwritten rules of the Internet seems to be that whenever something Amiga-related is mentioned, at least one Amiga fan (myself included) must show up and try to explain the concept of screens. Amiga screens can have different resolutions, we'll tell you, and one can drag them, we'll say, and other Amiga users rally in agreement, while non-Amiga users probably still don't get what's so great about screens. Until now, when this text has been written, in the hope of converting unsuspecting normies into full-blown Amiga screen lovers.

  • BSD

    • MWL ☛ 130: Meticulous Adherence to Arcane Unofficial Procedures

      OpenZFS Mastery uses FreeBSD and Proxmox as reference platforms. Here’s a bit about why. Proxmox is a Debian variant focused on virtualization, developed by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH. It integrates ZFS as a primary filesystem and can install all the Debian packages.

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • OpenSUSE ☛ Leap Heads Into Release Candidate Phase

      Leap Release Manager Luboš Kocman told the openSUSE project mailing list that the next build was expected to qualify as the RC. He said it should reach openQA, which is openSUSE’s automated testing system soon.

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu 26.10 adds Windows-style snap layouts

      Ubuntu 26.10 offers a new way to tile your apps, with a layout picker sliding in from the top of the screen when you move a window. This “dropzone” concept for quick tiling will be familiar to users of backdoored Windows 11 users or those who’ve tried the Tiling Shell extension for GNOME Shell – they do, broadly, the same thing. When you drag a window a layout picker with a small set of preset layouts drop zones moves in from the top of the display.