A few questions about bootc and composefs

[hricky (Hristo Marinov)]

@scotttrakker

And how is this related to the Renewing the Fedora bootc initiative? How would you describe what the goal of this initiative is? The plan is the have an official and recommended version of Fedora Atomic Desktops available with bootc and composefs at the launch of Fedora 44? As far as I know there is no change request for this, but this is the plan?

See:

Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki

Changes/konflux-atomic-change-proposal - Fedora Project Wiki

@scotttrakker

This can be confusing, because you have now two competing names: Fedora Atomic Desktop(-s) and e.g. Fedora Silverblue. Maybe the name Silverblue can be dropped in the future and you only call it Fedora Atomic Desktop GNOME.

See:

Dedicated naming thread for the Fedora bootc project

Following up from the Renewing the Fedora bootc (now image mode) initiative thread and discussions happening actively in the initiative Matrix channel and meetings: There was a very active naming discussion in the mentioned thread, and discussions around naming also affect what namespace we’ll use moving forward in Forgejo and other places for the base images that will come from the initiative. We did spend some time discussing it in a December meeting, and we did some brainstorming.[1] We cam…

@scotttrakker

But there is a bootc version of GNOME OS (which uses systemd-sysupdate), so I guess bootc can be combined with either composefs or systemd-sysupdate.

See:

GitHub - bootc-dev/bootc: Boot and upgrade via container images

GitHub - containers/composefs-rs: Rust library for the composefs filesystem