Linux Plumbers Conference 2020

Session

Application Ecosystem MC

28 Aug 2020, 07:00

184. Flatpak - a desktop version of containers

Alexander Larsson (Red Hat)

28/08/2020, 07:00

Flatpak is a sandboxing system targeting Linux Desktop
applications. This talk will explain how flatpak uses varius linux
kernel and userspace features to implement sandboxing, and compare and
contrast to how it works with server-side container systems like
Docker.

It will also talk about future plans and ideas in this area,
including things that we can do with existing frameworks as...

222. A Look Inside Mutter / GNOME Shell

Georges Basile Stavracas Neto (Endless OS Foundation)

28/08/2020, 07:45

Mutter is a Wayland compositor and X11 compositing window manager based on the Clutter toolkit. GNOME Shell is GNOME's signature desktop, and is built on top of Mutter.

In this presentation, I'll start with a quick overview of various aspects of Mutter internals, such as:

• The different abstractions layers for rendering the scene graph (Clutter, Cogl, Graphene)
• GBM/EGL native...

240. Plasma on Mobile devices

Bhushan Shah

28/08/2020, 08:30

KDE, previously known as the one of the Desktop Environment evolved into one of the largest Free and Open-source software community at one point. Currently one of the projects supported by community is Plasma Mobile: open-source user interface and ecosystem running on top of the Linux distribution.

This talk aims to talk about journey of the Plasma Mobile, how it evolved into what it is...