Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

·Hacker News··

Hi HN! I've been working on Bor, an open-source system for centralized Linux desktop management.Bor consists of a lightweight Go agent and a central server. Policies are streamed to clients over mTLS/gRPC in real time—no polling—and currently support Firefox, Chrome, KDE, dconf, polkit and package management, with more coming.Version 0.8 introduces several new policy types - Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business and FirewallD zones, along with a number of improvements and fixes.I'd love feedback on the architecture, policy model, and whether this is something you'd consider for managing Linux workstations.

Read full article →

Related Articles

Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
khalidkhair · Hacker News · 4h ago
Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
_chall · Hacker News · 1d ago
French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic
helloplanets · Hacker News · 7h ago
We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
kuberwastaken · Hacker News · 2d ago
Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
dbreunig · Hacker News · 1d ago