This was a server issue, you can always report an issue in github and we’ll take a look, it took 10m to fix. But crucially it found an edge case that we hadn’t accounted for and haven’t run into so far, so we’ll work on making sure this won’t happen again: https://github.com/ublue-os/main/issues/643
bluefin/aurora co-maintainer here, the 1password ssh agent is a miniboss we haven’t conquered yet, just a heads up.
She only suggested a small “news channel” built into the OS.
Yeah we’re working on that here: https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/issues/1485
The failure with secure boot afterwards is news to me, we’ll investigate, thanks!
Did you experience the Silverblue issue on a ublue image? We mitigated that last month so you should only have one problem or the other, not both.
there are a lot of tools included that are new to me, despite being a cloud-oriented developer.
Interesting! What tools do you commonly use?
We probably won’t (we’re not looking to grow that much anymore), but I think someone should definitely take either portainer or the proxmox stack and just slap it on top a CoreOS image with a user friendly installer and make a killer SMB server.
Here’s the repo: https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin and the intro doc outlines some of the features. We include all the codecs from rpmfusion and use negativo17 for the nvidia drivers.
Yeah checkout ucore, which is derived from CoreOS instead of Silverblue: https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore
What kind of printer? What’s the name of the package that got it working? We can add printer drivers pretty easily.
Hi! Universal Blue co-maintainer here, here’s the TLDR. You’ve got the basic descriptions right, “Universal Blue” is mostly the parent organization that holds everything in github.
We take Fedora’s Atomic OCI images and customize them for different use cases (Aurora, Bazzite, and Bluefin) and then publish base images so people can make their own versions of whatever they want. So if you wanted to take Silverblue, Kinoite, and make your own custom image you can mostly just grab whatever you want and shove it into an OS image. Bluefin started off as a “fix me” script for Silverblue that added all the stuff I wanted and then once I was shown what Fedora wanted to do with it the natural progression was to just make it a custom image. We just released 3.0 a few minutes ago actually!
Basically in Fedora 41 the tech will become more widely available with official OCI base images and better tooling. We just decided to start way earlier in the process so we could get all the automation out of the way, build a community, get familiar with it, etc. Happy to answer any other questions you may have!
I disagree on your view about the Fedora atomic spins, especially universal blue. Who cares if the underlying OS downloads as one big image. It all happens in the background, you don’t notice that. Everytime you reboot, you are on an updated system.
Universal Blue co-maintainer here, this is a temporary situation, efficient downloads are coming, I’m actually at the Red Hat Summit and have been discussing things with the right engineering teams. This involves an intersection of podman, ostree maintainers etc. all aligning on it. It’s definitely a priority for them to fix this.
We’ve pushed pretty hard and pretty fast on the cloud native model, part of it was convincing people that this was a thing that users want, they hear us loud and clear now, it’s going to be an awesome year.
/etc is completely writeable. This is why we don’t use the term “immutable distros” because Bazzite and the rest of universal blue are neither immutable nor distros.
(This is why Fedora moved to the term Atomic)
installs all those things and sets things up properly on a standard fedora install?
That’s exactly what all universal blue images do. It’s just that setup is done every single day in github from scratch and stamped out as an image so that the end result gets to your computer as a finished deployment artifact. Leads to better update reliability, built in rollback.
The biggest benefit is that it’s easier for a community to fix the fast moving gamer stuff as a config layer on top of a distro that’s delivered this way than me having to manually figure out what component of my gaming setup changed that week.
being a mutable minimal CentOS. So all the linking and making immutable would need to be done.
No it’s designed to be consumed as a base image for ostree enabled OCI containers.
This requires the presence of rpm-ostree and a kernel, which are both missing in the CentOS Stream image.
There are ostree-enabled OCI containers of centos if you know where to look. :D
This should be enough until they start publishing official ones, never used it:
https://quay.io/repository/centos-bootc/centos-bootc-dev?tab=tags
Yeah it’s 2024, this stuff should just be built into the OS! I’m at kubecon so don’t have time to look into it now but it’d be an awesome thing to have, we’d love the help!
bluefin co-maintainer here. espanso is a hard one, we have an open issue on getting it to work because it’d be something awesome to include. We might end up needing to package it but haven’t had a chance to look deeper into the issue.
The entire purpose is to conveniently access your files, so if that’s a problem use containers normally or pass a -h during distrobox create if you want to isolate home directories.