Episode 4:04: Happy Rebasing to Everyone!

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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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