Episode 4:04: Happy Rebasing to Everyone!
Sep 18, 2023β’1 hr 34 min
Episode description
Coming up in this episode
* The prying eyes wanna know π
* 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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5HWgR24VXU
Banter
Fedora considers adding telemetry (https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/fedora_privacy_telemetry/)
Fedora Wiki on the proposal (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Telemetry)
Endless OS's optional telemetry (https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2023/07/05/endless-oss-privacy-preserving-metrics-system/)
Discussion thread (https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-request-privacy-preserving-telemetry-for-fedora-workstation-system-wide/85320/774)
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The History of Fedora Silverblue
Multiple Bootable Roots (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree/NixOSComparison)
From GUADEC 2012 - OSTree (https://lwn.net/Articles/511877/#walters)
Gnome Continuous (https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/GnomeContinuous)
Walters described (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy0ZEHPXJ9Q) OSTree as "a magic formula."
March 20, 2013 - Docker is born (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software))
CoreOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_Linux) sees its first public release in October of 2013.
Red Hat official inclusion (https://web.archive.org/web/20131128171128/http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/11/26/rhel6-5-ga/) of Docker with RHEL 6.5
April 2014 - Project Atomic (https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/04/announcing-project-atomic/)
The actual distro building was left (https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/05/the-difference-between-project-atomic-and-atomic-hosts/) to the actual distro projects.
Instructions to build on top of Fedora 20 (https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/04/build-your-own-atomic-host-on-fedora-20/)
CENTOS and RHEL partner (https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html) which began the journey to Atomic Host (https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/06/centos-atomic-host-sig-propposed/).
A Fedora Atomic Host installable ISO becomes available (https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/07/new-fedora-atomic-installable-iso/) based on Rawhide.
August 2014 - CentOS Atomic Host alpha builds were available (https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/08/centos-7-alpha-builds-for-atomic/).
December 2014 - Fedora 21 releases with Atomic Host images (https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/12/fedora-21-goes-gold-with-atomic-images/).
March 2015 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host released (https://web.archive.org/web/20150312173742/http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/03/05/announcement-rhel-atomic-host-ga/).
July 2015 - Package layering (https://projectatomic.io/blog/2016/07/hacking-and-extending-atomic-host/) was introduced.
Atomic Hosts came and went, including (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Two_Week_Atomic) bi-weekly releases (https://projectatomic.io/blog/2015/12/fedora-atomic-host-two-week-release-ready/)
2016 - XDG-App was renamed Flatpak (https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/flatpak/2016-May/000204.html).
2018 - CoreOS Docker platform was acquired by Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-acquire-coreos-expanding-its-kubernetes-and-containers-leadership) in January. It became, Red Hat CoreOS (https://projectatomic.io/blog/2018/05/welcome-redhat-coreos/).
The Fedora flavor would live on as... Team Silverblue (https://web.archive.org/web/20180505090226/https://www.teamsilverblue.org/).
The domain name and handles around the web were available (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/_attachments/team-silverblue-origins.pdf)
It was almost called Silverleaf (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/faq/)
October 30, 2018 - Fedora 29 was released (https://web.archive.org/web/20190407211446/https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/) with a Silverblue variant. Matthew Miller on Fedora Magazine noted (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-29/).
The Fedora Council made the decision (https://web.archive.org/web/20191121020222/https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedoras-strategic-direction-an-update-from-the-council/796) to tighten things up regarding naming.
2019 - Fedora 30 and the Silverblue variant were released (https://web.archive.org/web/20201201201318/https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/)
2021 - Silverblue 35 in November, Fedora Kinoite (https://fedoraproject.org/kinoite/) appears.
2023 - Silverblue 38 in April, Fedora Sericea (https://fedoraproject.org/sericea/) appears.
Further Reading
Fedora Silverblue Technical information (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/technical-information/)
rpm-ostree documentation (https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/)
Vanilla OS documentation (https://documentation.vanillaos.org/)
ABRoot (https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/ABRoot)
blendOS documentation (https://docs.blendos.co/docs/intro)
libostree (https://ostreedev.github.io/ostree/)
Sodalite (https://github.com/sodaliterocks/)
Bazzite (https://bazzite.gg/)
Universal Blue (https://universal-blue.org/)
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