KWLUG Meeting: Monday, January 5, 2026, 7pm

Update: Unfortunately Megan will not be able to present this month. We will reschedule her Marp presentation. 

Mikalai Birukou will tell us about Incus, a Linux container platform developed as  an alternative to LXD. 

Doug Moen will tell us about Fedora Atomic distros such as  Fedora Kinoite. He writes:

Fedora Atomic Linux is a family of distros that combine the ease of maintenance and the worry free automatic system updates of Android and ChromeOS, with the hackability, configurability and privacy of traditional desktop Linux.

There's a old meme about the "year of the Linux desktop", which is somehow always in the future. In order to get there, we need to match the ease of use and maintenance of consumer operating systems. There's more to this than just polishing the GUI. In order to have worry free automatic upgrades, that happen in the background, without impacting the operation of the machine, and that can't fail and trash your disk, we need an architectural change. Fedora Atomic Linux delivers this architectural change. It does this without throwing away our existing package ecosystems, and while still allowing you to freely modify and configure your system.

I will argue that atomic distros are the future of desktop Linux: they will be easier to use and more reliable for novice users migrating from Windows, and provide a better experience for developers and system hackers. And I will share my experiences of using such a distro.