Bor

Policy management for Linux desktops.

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Bor manages the configuration of Linux desktops and laptops from one place. You define policies in a web interface, assign them to groups of machines, and the Bor agent on each desktop applies them within seconds, keeps them in place and reports back whether each machine is compliant.

!The Bor dashboard

What Bor manages

| Area | Policy types | |---|---| | Browsers and mail | Firefox, Chrome and Chromium, Microsoft Edge, Thunderbird | | Desktop environments | KDE Plasma (KConfig and Kiosk), GNOME (dconf) | | System | Polkit rules, firewalld zones, session access times, disk encryption (LUKS2 with TPM 2.0, Tang and escrowed recovery keys) | | Software | Packages and repositories (APT, DNF, Zypper), Flatpak remotes and applications |

See Policy types for what each one can do.

Highlights

• Real time. Agents keep a persistent, mutually authenticated TLS

• Tamper protection. The agent watches every file it manages and

• Compliance reporting. Every machine reports, per policy, whether it is

• Simple rollout. Each server hosts signed agent package repositories

• Built for regulated environments. FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography,

• Native packages. deb, rpm, apk and Arch Linux packages for amd64,

Getting started

• Concepts: how

• Quick start: a

• Installation:

Building from source

make frontend server agent

The development guide covers the development environment, the architecture, tests and packaging.

Contributing

Bug reports, ideas and pull requests are welcome. Read the contributing guide before you start. Report security vulnerabilities privately to , not in a public issue.

License

Copyright (C) 2026 Vute Tech LTD Copyright (C) 2026 Bor contributors

Bor is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (AGPL-3.0-only). If you run a modified version of the Bor server for others over a network, the AGPL requires you to offer them the source code of your version.

Bor Enterprise, the commercial edition from Vute Tech LTD, is distributed under a separate proprietary license. For commercial licensing, contact .

Contributions are accepted under the Contributor License Agreement; see Contributing.