Meet Webtops A Linux Desktop Environment In Your Browser

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2021-07-03 08:00:14

Before I joined the LinuxServer organization I had been working on a Docker management solution called Taisun. Over the years it became apparent everyone downloading this application was only really using the subfeature to be able to run a Linux desktop in their web browser. From parts of this project we as a team started deploying containers for popular GUI applications in docker containers and have now released: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/webtop

This technology stack goes a bit against the Docker grain as we are running many services in a single container to facilitate spinning up a usable web based desktop experience with a single command consisting of:

A lot of different Docker GUI solutions exist today, but what we always found is they were just missing some common sense stuff like:

Because we control the whole stack and went into this with the design philosophy of building a baseimage any Linux GUI app could be easily embedded in, doing a desktop environment where users could customize it to their needs by installing the packages they want, seemed like the logical next step.

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