All the countless hours spent on the #Linux Desktop Migration Tool are finally paying off! My wife got a new laptop yesterday. I installed #Fedora #Silverblue on it, created a user account, connected it to the home network, and left the migration tool running overnight. She could start using the new laptop without any interruption in the morning, and the whole thing took like 15 minutes of my time.

codeberg.org/sesivany/linux-de…

linux-desktop-migration-tool

Linux Desktop Migration Tool aims to make migration from one Linux desktop machine to another as easy as possible.

^Codeberg.org

I had a talk called "Unbreakable Linux for Entire Family" today. It had nothing to do with Oracle #Linux, it was about concepts and approaches around #Fedora #Silverblue to make a truly free ChromeOS-like system for friends and family.
I was happy to have a full room of people. It's good to see #OpenAlt bouncing back in terms of attendance.

The recording of the talk (in Czech) is already available online:
youtube.com/live/7Xhs8zP8xwI?t…

Konference OpenAlt 2024 – sobota – D0207

Vítejte na konferenci OpenAlt 2024.🗓️ 👍 Program a hodnocení: https://www.openalt.cz/2024/program/

^YouTube

Two Silverblue systems here got hit by the secure boot signature bootloader bug on the upgrade that brought in a new kernel. Good thing there are rollbacks (to boot an older version) and a workaround.

Issue: github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…

Workaround to keep using secure boot (run these commands on a working boot): github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…

Hopefully there's an automatic fix soon? ('bootupd' should be the long term fix for this.)

#Silverblue #Kinoite #Fedora #Atomic #FedoraAtomic #Linux

Boot fails with "vmlinuz has invalid signature" or "bad shim signature, you need to load the kernel first" · Issue #543 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker

Current workaround See #543 (comment) Original issue text Describe the bug Trying to rebase an existing SB39 to SB40 fails to boot showing vmlinuz-6.8.1-300.fc40.x86.x64 has invalid signature. you ...

^GitHub

Interested in tooling for development and QA on immutable / image based Linux?

Checkout discourse.gnome.org/t/towards-… by @tchx84

Feedback welcome ! This is a collaboration between @gnome @codethink and @sovtechfund ❤️

#Linux #systemd #Silverblue #GNOME #freedesktop #KDE #Ubuntu #SUSE #Fedora #NixOS #postmarketOS

Towards a better way to hack and test your system components

Introduction Hey everyone, I recently joined Codethink and I am contributing to the improvements being made to GNOME OS, through the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), to make it easier and more useful in day-to-day development and testing tasks, among othe…

^{GNOME Discourse}

Ptyxis, a toolbox/distrobox container aware terminal from Christian Hergert is now available on Flathub!

flathub.org/apps/app.devsuite.…

#Flatpak #Flathub #Silverblue #AtomicDesktops

Install Ptyxis on Linux | Flathub

A container oriented terminal for GNOME

^Flathub

So remember how I was saying you shouldn’t have to know or care if your operating system is immutable for an immutable operating system to be usable by everyday folks? (You know, clever folks, like brain surgeons and astronauts, not just your regular garden variety tech hobbyist with time to spare following instructions from a wiki.)

Seems others think so too… #VanillaOS sounds very promising. #Fedora #Silverblue folks should take some notes.

vanillaos.org/

#os #design #linux #gnome

So this is one of the coolest things about Fedora Silverblue (apart from the excellent stability, speed, and gorgeous stock GNOME 42): the first entry you see is today’s operating system. The second one is yesterday’s. If I wanted to, I could revert to the latter with a single command.

#fedora #silverblue #versioning #rpm #ostree #linux

Fedora Silverblue is an immutable OS that I’ve been using for a few weeks now alongside the excellent Distrobox tool that lets you run multiple distribution containers from terminal. Still finding my feet but love the stability and speed so far.

silverblue.fedoraproject.org/

#fedora #silverblue

Is it just me or can’t Fedora Silverblue install Flatpaks downloaded from the web (flatpakref) in GNOME Software?

(This is a valid, decentralised way of distributing software that doesn’t require centralised services like Flathub, etc. and should be supported as a first-class citizen in free and open operating systems.)

github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…

#linux #flatpak #gnome #fedora #silverblue

Tip: if you’re using the new GNOME Console and Fish shell, you don’t have to wait until the GNOME folks have colour schemes implemented if you want to customise yours.

fisher install FabioAntunes/base16-fish-shell

Then, in your console, type base16<tab> to see the list of different colour schemes you can try.

github.com/FabioAntunes/base16…

#GNOME #console #fedora #silverblue #terminal

GitHub - FabioAntunes/base16-fish-shell: base16 for fish shell

base16 for fish shell. Contribute to FabioAntunes/base16-fish-shell development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Not sure if there’s been a more recent update but this post on the future (and past) of Fedora Silverblue is very informative if you’re interested in learning more about this immutable OS that I’m loving so far.

blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/09…

#fedora #silverblue