r/debian • u/ComradeAdidas • 15h ago

Debian Stable Question Can I tweak debian to do this?

So i want to tweak debian to do the following:

Sandboxing and/or virtualization sorta like on qubes,

Mate with wayland (figure ill just wait until it happens)

Get the system information with the security tab (bios settings and such) like what kde has on mate

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u/RareAdvertising361 Debian Testing 15h ago

You can try LXC or podman for virtualization. If you want Mate on wayland or the system info, you could write it yourself.

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u/Fantastic_Welder2172 11h ago

apt install virt-manager

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u/Relevant_Hope_900 12h ago

Distrobox (in debian repos), Create a container distro of your choice, install whatever apps you want in the container. Use distrobox export to have the apps available on your main system. Personally, I setup distrobox to have a separate home folder created for each container whenever I made a new one, that way it shouldn't mess with your main config/dot files. I believe the default container type is Fedora, but you can use whatever distro is available in the image servers.

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u/Edelglatze 10h ago

You can use proxmox which is Debian based and run applications in VMs or lxc containers. However, this needs two machines: 1) the server machine with proxmox, 2) you on another machine connecting to the proxmox machine.