Show Notes
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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