This was a server issue, you can always report an issue in github and we’ll take a look, it took 10m to fix. But crucially it found an edge case that we hadn’t accounted for and haven’t run into so far, so we’ll work on making sure this won’t happen again: https://github.com/ublue-os/main/issues/643
bluefin/aurora co-maintainer here, the 1password ssh agent is a miniboss we haven’t conquered yet, just a heads up.
She only suggested a small “news channel” built into the OS.
Yeah we’re working on that here: https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/issues/1485
The failure with secure boot afterwards is news to me, we’ll investigate, thanks!
Did you experience the Silverblue issue on a ublue image? We mitigated that last month so you should only have one problem or the other, not both.
there are a lot of tools included that are new to me, despite being a cloud-oriented developer.
Interesting! What tools do you commonly use?
We probably won’t (we’re not looking to grow that much anymore), but I think someone should definitely take either portainer or the proxmox stack and just slap it on top a CoreOS image with a user friendly installer and make a killer SMB server.
Here’s the repo: https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin and the intro doc outlines some of the features. We include all the codecs from rpmfusion and use negativo17 for the nvidia drivers.
Yeah checkout ucore, which is derived from CoreOS instead of Silverblue: https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore
What kind of printer? What’s the name of the package that got it working? We can add printer drivers pretty easily.
Hi! Universal Blue co-maintainer here, here’s the TLDR. You’ve got the basic descriptions right, “Universal Blue” is mostly the parent organization that holds everything in github.
We take Fedora’s Atomic OCI images and customize them for different use cases (Aurora, Bazzite, and Bluefin) and then publish base images so people can make their own versions of whatever they want. So if you wanted to take Silverblue, Kinoite, and make your own custom image you can mostly just grab whatever you want and shove it into an OS image. Bluefin started off as a “fix me” script for Silverblue that added all the stuff I wanted and then once I was shown what Fedora wanted to do with it the natural progression was to just make it a custom image. We just released 3.0 a few minutes ago actually!
Basically in Fedora 41 the tech will become more widely available with official OCI base images and better tooling. We just decided to start way earlier in the process so we could get all the automation out of the way, build a community, get familiar with it, etc. Happy to answer any other questions you may have!
Flameshot is 3.6MB on disk according to flatpak info org.flameshot.Flameshot
ublue co-maintainer here. I go over a bunch of the reasons here: https://www.ypsidanger.com/homebrew-is-great-on-linux/
Namely we needed a way to complement Flatpak and brew was a natural fit. It’s an ecosystem reason not a technical one. It has everything we need and a good deal of Bluefin’s target audience are already using it on mac. So for us it’s an easier lift to just add homebrew and move on to larger problems.
Plus it’s nice that they’re working with the openssf to secure the supply chain pipeline, and it’s nice that everything is in github where we can inspect it, use the same tooling we use for the OS, etc.
I’m unclear how mature the project is and whether it will be updated in a timely manner long term
ublue and bluefin co-maintainer here, we’ve been around for a while now (3rd birthday coming up!) and have been around in a more unofficial capacity for longer.
Bluefin is feature complete and is in maintenance mode, it’s just going to get updated in perpetuity to 41, 42, etc. We invested in automation first so most of the maintenance is automatic and it doesn’t take much for our team to do it. Right now most of our major ticket items are waiting for things to finish landing in upstream Fedora, most of which are targetted towards F41. A good portion of the team have been around in OSS for a long time and a bunch of us work in the industry and depend on Bluefin for our jobs, so much so that we have a great working relationship with Framework, so we’re supporting those laptops as a community option for them.
Aurora is relatively new, coming in just as Plasma 6 landed in fedora. Most reports with issues we get for it are things like it being a new major release, wayland/nvidia issues, etc.
Hopefully that answers some of your questions, if you have more feel free to ask!
/etc is completely writeable. This is why we don’t use the term “immutable distros” because Bazzite and the rest of universal blue are neither immutable nor distros.
(This is why Fedora moved to the term Atomic)
The entire purpose is to conveniently access your files, so if that’s a problem use containers normally or pass a -h during distrobox create if you want to isolate home directories.