Just as we concluded our first NLnet grant, it is also time to say goodbye to the second phase of the project, ‘anarchy on the desktop’, a

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2024-12-26 18:00:04

Just as we concluded our first NLnet grant, it is also time to say goodbye to the second phase of the project, ‘anarchy on the desktop’, and enter the third and final one.

As per the old roadmap, 0.7 is the last window of opportunity for any trailing features. For 0.8 we finally get to pull out the performance tuning tricks, 0.9 for hardening the attack surfaces, to be followed by me disappearing in a puff of smoke.

I am also happy to say that we have received two new NLnet grants, one administrated by me, the other by Cipharius. Both of these build on the networking layer. For my part we’ll extend the directory server end to have a more flexible programmable remote side, for supporting linking multiple ones together and making the entire stack ‘turnkey’ easy to deploy and use.

In the other end there will be a simpler access layer for letting a device join your ‘one desktop, many devices’ network and extend it with its storage and sensors (cameras, displays, IMUs, and so on), or act as a portable viewer, Smash, for accessing it from within the confines of the corporate walled gardens.