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Using Signal Desktop on Fedora with Flatpak

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Will Foster

In the 2018 race to re-invent AOL instant messenger Signal comes out on top of the competition for end-to-end encryption and a focus on privacy and security. Signal desktop was recently released for Windows, Mac and only Debian-based Linux distributions … Continue reading →

Posted in open source, sysadmin | Tagged application containers, application sandbox, docker, flatpak, sandbox, security, signal, signal desktop, signal desktop fedora, signal flatpak, signal rpm | 15 Comments

Manage Test/Development Linux VMs with qcow2 and Libvirt

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Will Foster

I often need to quickly revert virtual machines used for testing to a known good, vanilla state without doing anything by hand. QEMU provides a great set of tools to help. Here’s a simple tool to wrap all of it … Continue reading →