Flatpak

📝 Too Long; Didn’t Read We are already at the halfway mark of 2026, and these first six months have been intense. Between coding, conferences, and workshops across Europe, I worked on systems management, green computing, local AI, and software security. This post is a recap of the projects and talks that shaped my February-to-June journey. 🛠️ February to May: deep dive into the Uyuni project For the first four months of this year, my main engineering focus was almost entirely dedicated to the fascinating world of the Uyuni project. If you have not had a chance to work with it yet, Uyuni is an incredibly powerful, completely open-source configuration and infrastructure management solution. It originally started as an evolution of Spacewalk, and today it serves as the upstream community project that feeds directly into SUSE Multi-Linux Manager, which was formerly known as SUSE Manager. ...

📦 That new package smell We’ve all been there: you see a shiny new app on GitHub and you want to “unwrap” it immediately. But in the traditional Linux world, opening a package often feels like opening a box of glitter in your living room—before you know it, dependencies are scattered everywhere, and you’re still finding weird library versions in /usr/lib three months later. This is why I’ve started reaching for the Flatpak. It’s like an unboxing experience where the box stays a box. You get all the “goodies” inside, but the mess stays contained. Let’s see what happens when we tear off the shrink-wrap. ...