"Qubes OS from the POV of a Debian developer" and "Qubes OS user meetup at Bornhack"
I wrote the following while on my way home from
Bornhack which was an awesome hacking camp on the Danish island of Bornholm, where about 200 people gathered for a week, with a nice beach in walking distance (and a not too cold Baltic Sea) and vegan and not so vegan grills, to give some hints why it was awesome. (Actually it was mostly awesome due to the people there, not the things, but anyway )
And there were of course also talks and workshops, and one was a
Qubes OS users meetup, which amazingly was attended by 20 Qubes OS users (and some Qubes OS users present were even missing), so in other words: Qubes OS had a >10% user base at this event! And I even found one
heads user!
At DebConf17 I gave a talk titled "Qubes OS from the POV of a Debian developer" and while the
video was immediatly available (thanks to the DebConf videoteam!) I've also now put
my slides for it online.
Since then, I learned a few things:
- I should have mentioned Standalone-VM (=non-template based VMs) in the talk, as those are also possible, and sometimes handy.
- IPv6 works with manual fiddling (but this is undocumented)
- I've given Salt (for configuation management) a short try (with the help of an experienced Salt users, thanks nodens!) and I must say I'm not impressed yet. But Qubes 4.0 will bring huge changes to this area (including introducing an AdminVM), so while I will not use Salt for the time I'll still be using Qubes 3.2, I will come back and look at this later.
- after adding a single line containing "iwldvm iwlwifi" to
/rw/config/suspend-module-blacklist in the NetVM the wireless comes back nicely (on my X230) after Suspend/Resume.
I'm looking forward to more Qubes OS user meetups in future!