brightbox, 1 month ago to random

Freshly baked @flatcar Container Linux images are now available in our cloud server image library 🥳

We're automatically importing the latest Stable, LTS and Beta releases and as with our other official Linux distro images, they’re provided unmodified from the upstream source – so you can be sure there are no hidden surprises and everything works as expected 🙂

https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2024/04/11/flatcar-images/

#flatcar

thilo, 3 months ago to linux

In a surprise twist, our #fosdem2024 BoF session "Special Purpose Operating Systems: The Next Step in OS Evolution or One-Trick Ponies?" was greenlit this morning!

If you want to listen to and engage with Razvan Deaconescu (#Unikraft unikernel), Mauro Morales (#KairOS), Richard Brown (#SUSE #MicroOS), and yours truly (#Flatcar) on special purpose #linux distributions then head over to AW 1.121 at 3pm to our BoF panel session: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3561-special-purpose-operating-systems-the-next-step-in-os-evolution-or-one-trick-ponies-/

#fosdem

thilo, 4 months ago to linux

A little while ago we proposed a change to the #UAPIGroup system extension spec, adding optional mutability: https://github.com/uapi-group/specifications/pull/78
(Although I filed the PR, it's based on the initiative of multiple #Flatcar #Linux maintainers)

Now a fellow maintainer took a first stab at a reference implementation in #systemd: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31000

Mutable overlays will make #sysexts more versatile and flexible, and will make them easier to use on general purpose distros. Really awesome to see this happen!

thilo, 5 months ago to linux

Blogged about #imagebased #linux os composability with #systemd #sysext and our upcoming #torcx deprecation in #Flatcar #Container Linux: https://www.flatcar.org/blog/2023/12/extending-flatcar-say-goodbye-to-torcx-and-hello-to-systemd-sysext./

If you haven't heard about torcx, don't worry about it. It's a rather specific tool for a very limited use case. Sysexts on the other hand make customising immutable, image-based Linux distros like Flatcar a lot more flexible!

thilo, 8 months ago to linux

If you like to hear about customising #Flatcar #Container #Linux using #systemd's cutting edge composable image technology and/or are interested in the latest #webassembly things, make sure to tune in on the #WasmCon talk

"Let's Build a Linux Just for #wasm !"

with @squillace and @ahrkrak

on Thursday September 7, at 2:15pm - 2:50pm PDT.

(link to stream here: https://wasmcon2023.sched.com/event/1PCLu?iframe=no)