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Episode 4:04: Happy Rebasing to Everyone!


Coming up in this episode

  • The prying eyes wanna know ????
  • The History of Silverblue
  • What's immutable anyway?
  • and how we layered a few packages

0:00 Cold Open
1:44 Telemetry Trouble
27:45 Silverblue 2012
30:49 Silverblue 2013-2014
33:55 Silverblue 2015-2017
34:50 Silverblue 2018
38:25 Silverblue 2019-2021
39:56 Silverblue 2022-2023
41:47 An Immutability Primer?
1:01:39 How'd Silverblue Go?
1:28:42 Next Time: Topics & CDE
1:33:04 Stinger

The video version!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5HWgR24VXU

Banter
  • Fedora considers adding telemetry
  • Fedora Wiki on the proposal
  • Endless OS's optional telemetry
  • Discussion thread
Announcements

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The History of Fedora Silverblue
  • Multiple Bootable Roots
  • From GUADEC 2012 - OSTree
  • Gnome Continuous
  • Walters described OSTree as "a magic formula."
  • March 20, 2013 - Docker is born
  • CoreOS sees its first public release in October of 2013.
  • Red Hat official inclusion of Docker with RHEL 6.5
  • April 2014 - Project Atomic
  • The actual distro building was left to the actual distro projects.
  • Instructions to build on top of Fedora 20
  • CENTOS and RHEL partner which began the journey to Atomic Host.
  • A Fedora Atomic Host installable ISO becomes available based on Rawhide.
  • August 2014 - CentOS Atomic Host alpha builds were available.
  • December 2014 - Fedora 21 releases with Atomic Host images.
  • March 2015 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host released.
  • July 2015 - Package layering was introduced.
  • Atomic Hosts came and went, including bi-weekly releases
  • 2016 - XDG-App was renamed Flatpak.
  • 2018 - CoreOS Docker platform was acquired by Red Hat in January. It became, Red Hat CoreOS.
  • The Fedora flavor would live on as... Team Silverblue.
  • The domain name and handles around the web were available
  • It was almost called Silverleaf
  • October 30, 2018 - Fedora 29 was released with a Silverblue variant. Matthew Miller on Fedora Magazine noted.
  • The Fedora Council made the decision to tighten things up regarding naming.
  • 2019 - Fedora 30 and the Silverblue variant were released
  • 2021 - Silverblue 35 in November, Fedora Kinoite appears.
  • 2023 - Silverblue 38 in April, Fedora Sericea appears.
Further Reading
  • Fedora Silverblue Technical information
  • rpm-ostree documentation
  • Vanilla OS documentation
  • ABRoot
  • blendOS documentation
  • libostree
  • Sodalite
  • Bazzite
  • Universal Blue
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Next Time

Some topics and some feedback. Our next distro isn't a distro, what? We plan to explore and provide the history of CDE or Common Desktop Environment.

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