It has been two years since Webtop and our accompanying base images were released with the goal of delivering a full Linux Desktop to your Web Browser. If you were not aware the backend technology enabling this was a combination of xrdp, Guacamole, and an in house client Gclient. Guacamole a...

Let me start with the TLDR because this one is long, and I mean long even by my standards. Selkies 2.0.0 shipped on September 24th. Every LinuxServer.io Selkies based container has been rebuilt on it, along with pixelflux 2.1.0 and pcmflux 2.1.0 underneath. Five video codecs instead of one. WebRTC a...

Webtop 4.1: X11 is dead and what is Selkies, anyway?

We've now switched our Selkies desktop containers to run in Wayland mode by default, if for any reason you want to got back just set -e PIXELFLUX_WAYLAND=false as noted in the change log for each container. For x86_64, Wayland mode requires a...

Let me just start with the TLDR as I have a tendency to write too much, all of our Selkies based images can now be launched into a Wayland mode using the env var -e PIXELFLUX_WAYLAND=true or checking a box in Sealskin. This Wayland mode is an entire ground up stack leveraging a virtual framebuff...

It has been a long journey from our first experiments with Taisun to the polished desktop containers we maintain today. We started by simply trying to put a desktop in a browser. With WebTop, we refined that vision using open-source RDP and VNC technologies. Then, we integrated KasmVNC for a m...