Hello Fediverse! 👋 We're Universal Blue, a cloud native approach to building and delivering custom images of Fedora Atomic (Silverblue and friends).
We believe there is an opportunity to change the paradigm for how we consume and develop the Linux desktop by using everything we know about cloud infrastructure.
Our images are examples of what you can do, from staying close to stock (UBlue Main) to doing your own thing (Bluefin and Bazzite)!
Are you making a video or a podcast about Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea, Onyx, IoT or CoreOS ? Feel free to reach out on the Fedora discussion forum! We can help you figure out issues or answer questions you may have with those "new" variants.
If you prefer, you can also reach out directly to me. You might also want to reach out to @jorge (Universal Blue) or @sfalken (openSUSE MicroOS, Aeon, Kalpa).
Rebased my #silverblue install to #fedora39 to check out #gnome45 ahead of its release. "Rebasing" is such a scary word compared to how incredibly easy and safe this was - just rebooted and there it was. If anyone is not yet convinced that #immutableLinux workstations with atomic upgrades and painless rollback are the future, you should try this!
A 2009 #Macbook got a second life. It had #MacOS Sierra (EOL 4 years ago) installed and was terribly slow with it. The original hard drive replaced with SSD, memory upgraded from 4 to 8 GB, #Fedora#Linux (#Silverblue) installed and it's a decent laptop again.
Jesus fucking Christ, if users of #immutable#Linux distros aren't just the most insufferable people on the goddamned planet. The absolute epitome of the pathetic "excuse me, but I use Linux, BTW" type of "personality" that literally everyone hates.
Every possible moment they can mention it, every single thread, every fucking day.
No one, and I mean literally no one other than your little online "friends" cares about whether or not you use fucking #Silverblue or #NixOS.
I've set up a "davincibox" repository to build a container with the needed packages for installing and running Resolve on an image-based distro (i.e. Silverblue, Kinoite, etc) from distrobox (or toolbox).
For users of any operating system, not just #Linux, what might keep you from trying/running an #immutable#Fedora desktop? If you are already running one, why did you choose it?
Check out this great article from @LWN covering Bluefin! It's a good primer on Fedora Silverblue and how we're working on top of that with Bluefin's experience and tools. https://lwn.net/Articles/954059/
If you're still looking for more Fedora immutable (hmm, atomic?) content, check out this history video by @linuxuserspace about Fedora's work on Silverblue!
The main thing that I run into with #Fedora#Silverblue that really doesn't "just work" — unlike pretty much everything else— is video playback. The way to "fix" it gets more convoluted with every release, too.
Anyway, for Fedora 40 it seems to now be: sudo rpm-ostree override remove noopenh264 --install openh264 --install gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 --install mozilla-openh264
I really wish H.264 wasn't so widely adopted as the de-facto codec.
Is there any good Blog post to learn #uBlue customization with relatively limited knowledge about #Docker? I don't like the idea of a distro that I can't customize easily so normal #Silverblue doesn't sound like my favorite choice but uBlue, #VanillaOS and similar approaches sound very tempting and I love the concept of #Atomic distros in general! Also, do you think it's easy enough to learn to imediately switch my main computer over or should I do some more testing in VMs first?
I decided to try building #FreeCAD from source. I used a F39 toolbox on my #Fedora 40 #Silverblue and installed the prereqs; most from packages, but pyside2 from pip (inside the toolbox) since it hasn't been packaged in Fedora for years. The segfault I'm getting from libshiboken isn't illuminating to me. I could imagine a missing dependency on a package causing a segfault, or maybe no one is building FreeCAD on Fedora and it just doesn't work on F39. 🤔
Not clear that I'm close enough to the beaten path for this to be worth a bug report, though. Quite likely PEBCAK...
Just rebooted and I’m up and running with Fedora Silverblue 40.
(Just tried reinstalling mozilla-openh264 – so videos work in Firefox – but it failed with the same error. Not a big deal, I’m using @Vivaldi as my main browser these days anyway and I guess the Fedora folks will fix this in time.)
More importantly, I wonder if the screen reader has been fixed yet. (Yes, Fedora ships with a broken screen reader.)