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) 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) Announcements This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube (https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace) * 📽️TILvids (https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace) * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace) like you 😍 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/) More Announcements Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum) Housekeeping Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show) * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit (https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit) * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord) * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix (https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix) * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon (https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon) * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter) * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids (https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids) Next Time Some topics and some feedback. 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