Hey, I would like to share a hobby project. It is pretty much work in progress (unusable), but perhaps someone was thinking about creating something similar.
It is Linux distribution / desktop partially inspired by Qubes. It isolates individual apps into separate machines, and allows their windows to run side by side on a single desktop. It uses KVM, selinux, wayland on top of regular linux distro (Opensuse Tumbleweed). I started it because I use libvirt VMs for daily development, and wanted something more polished like Qubes.
It fits definition of “vibe coded”, most code was generated by agent, and not reviewed. Big part was designed from mobile phone. But it is two months of work, and it passed several rounds of automated reviews. And I hope I have a good dev process.
Parts:
- multitier VM isolation, each tier offers different tradeoff with security and memory overhead (SElinux, separate linux user, VM…)
- Weston based compositor and window manager. Window content shared via RDP (per window server), waypipe and other protocols. Again trade off between performance and security
- Desktop (shell) forked from Noctalia. Goal is to have GUI for everything.
- system utils like file manager, terminal, notebook… all integrated into multi VM desktop
- Permission framework with approval process and admin user
There is more, it should be “kubernetes for desktop” and “harness for local agent”. But that does not really belong here.
Right now I am testing it on VMs, and in few weeks I will install it on real hardware. If you would like to try it, clone qdistro repo, ask agent to clone siblinks repos, and build you daily VM image from qdistro/ci. You can also ask agent to run some interesting GUI tests in foreground, to see it in action.
Website:
Main docs: