As I previously mentioned, the Rawhide builds from today are the last ones I will be doing.
I will try to keep building branched versions and other variants at least until F35 is released but can not guarantee I’ll keep building them beyond that.
Several sub-project have been started to pick up maintenance of other variants. Please support them if you wish for your preferred DE to be made an official variant!
I’ll be switching most of my focus on improving Fedora Kinoite.
I just hope it keeps the base, the rest is superficial right now
Hi there @siosm
I’m on F34 Silverblue and want to test Kinoite.
Your message above leaves me a little confused.
The instructions here to install and test kinoite reference Rawhide. But your message above indicates this is no longer maintained.
Is there an active and supported way to test Kinoite?
Hello @ramblurr ,
I think @siosm was referring to the fact that Kionite has become an official spin, so he will not be able to focus on the other variants (like XFCE for instance) after F35.
This message was about unofficial builds: I’m not longer building unofficial variants for the Rawhide branch. I’m still building unofficial stable variants (F34 right now) and will keep building them for a while.
If you want to test Fedora Kinoite, you can try the official Rawhide builds from Fedora (How to test Fedora Kinoite (official builds only)), or the unofficial stable builds for F34 from me (Current status of Fedora Kinoite (official & unofficial builds)).
Yep,
I have started first to find a suitable name within the community. The result will be posted today or tomorrow.
Next step has then to follow.
Personally, I expect other spins on F36 or later.
v/r
Andi
Hello, how are you community? A question for lovers of wm like sway or i3. I want to create an iso based on silverblue but without gnome only with sway. Right now I have sway installed but I want to remove everything from gnome and generate an iso that you recommend? it’s possible? I like the initiative to put a lot of flavors in silverblue but I feel like they forget about those of us who love tiled windows. I would like the community to have a minimal iso for those who want a simple environment like a wm. I read recommendations or suggestions
You can start reading Kinoite, a KDE (and now XFCE) version of Fedora Silverblue - #213 by stbischof and my reply right after. Feel free to ask questions here if you need help to get started.
There will also be talks related to this topic at Nest on Friday August 6th:
Hi I have waited until FD35 Kinoite officially released to have another try and I still get the same concern after install there are no menu entries or icons.Video of first boot after install
Just wondering if there is a fixed for this.
@siosm - I think there is a problem with the Kinoite F35 ISO. Specifically when installed with the option English → English (United Kingdom) option in Anaconda.
This is how it is showing up. Using the same ISO, installing as English (United States) does not produce this error and looks/works fine. I have not tested other languages. I used the ISO distributed on the Download Fedora Kinoite site, and the sha256 checksum was verified.
This has also been corroborated by this Reddit post.
EDIT 1 (Nov 3 19:48 UTC): This is odd. Subsequent attempts to reproduce this are not working. I can’t work out how/why it happened. For now, I retract my guess that it’s the UK option that is triggering the error.
EDIT 2 (Nov 3 20:32 UTC): I can validate now that this is 100% reproducible if the Time & Date in Anaconda is selected to be Europe/London. Keyboard and Language options do not affect it; just the Time & Date.
EDIT 3 (Nov 3 20:59 UTC): Spot checking Tokyo (UTC +9) and Helsinki (UTC +2) time zones do not replicate this error. Selecting Europe/Lisbon (UTC) does replicate this error. So it seems to be specific to the UTC time zone. Also tested Silverblue 35 install; that does not seem to be affected, so for now it seems isolated to Kinoite.
Temporary workaround for anyone affected would be to install Kinoite by selecting any time zone other than UTC, and changing it back after installation is complete and you log into KDE the first time.
Can confirm that the workaround works perfectly - thank you for taking the time to debug this!
Edit: it may be blindingly obvious in hindsight, but if you layer any packages using rpm-ostree, change the system time away from UTC before doing so, and through the subsequent reboot. I just ended up back at square one after doing this and had to do a
timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York
And then change it back to GMT after restart to make everything work as expected. As per the original workaround, if you set your timezone properly before layering, you can set it back to normal after the reboot with no hassle.
Hi - I can also confirm that this work around works.
Thanks
Well it work until I changed the timezone back to London and has now reverted back to the former concern
I took a quick look at the logs and I didn’t see anything pop out at me. But I’m not experienced at all at working with Anaconda, so if anyone else wants to take a look, I’ve uploaded the logs here:
I’ve been using my system like this on and off for a day or two, and I do find it seems to revert to this state at indeterminate intervals. Obviously there’s some trigger but it’s there’s not any immediately obvious cause for it.
Sounds horrible to debug, if I’m honest - but then, I’m not an Operating System developer!
Excuse me, I wonder if Xfce for Silverblue still works for Fedora 35 now. I have visited the site of @siosm and there writes “used to … for Fedora 34”, not directly mentioning status of Xfce version now. Could anyone help to give me some information.
I love the idea of Silverblue, but I don’t trust Gnome and KDE much, for I have got a bad experience on openSUSE for them both.
Thanks.
To clear things up, I’m not building those custom images anymore.
The KDE variant lives on as the official Fedora Kinoite variant.
If you are interested in other variants based on other desktop environment, please either create another topic in this forum, reach out to the related SIG / groups in Fedora, etc.
If you have a bug in KInoite, please file an issue in the KDE SIG tracker or open another topic here to discuss it.
Thanks a lot for reply so soon. I will try Kinoite first. Hope no fatal bugs.
Hi
I’m trying to create a deployment for fedora 37 using your fedora-mate-yaml.
I did
# git checkout f37
and then ran the command
# rpm-ostree compose tree --repo=repo --cachedir=cache fedora-mate.yaml
rpm-ostree version: 2022.19
No previous commit for fedora/37/x86_64/mate
NOTICE: Running rpm-ostree compose tree without --unified-core is deprecated.
Please add --unified-core to the command line and ensure your content
works with it. For more information, see https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/issues/729
Enabled rpm-md repositories: fedora-37-updates fedora-37
Updating metadata for 'fedora-37-updates'... done
Updating metadata for 'fedora-37'... done
Importing rpm-md... done
rpm-md repo 'fedora-37-updates'; generated: 2023-01-09T00:58:05Z solvables: 15333
rpm-md repo 'fedora-37'; generated: 2022-11-10T09:30:00Z solvables: 66822
Resolving dependencies... done
error: Could not depsolve transaction; 1 problem detected:
Problem: conflicting requests
- package mate-desktop-configs-1.26.0-6.fc37.noarch conflicts with systemd-oomd-defaults provided by systemd-oomd-defaults-251.10-588.fc37.noarch
- package mate-desktop-configs-1.26.0-6.fc37.noarch conflicts with systemd-oomd-defaults provided by systemd-oomd-defaults-251.7-611.fc37.noarch
- package mate-desktop-1.26.0-6.fc37.x86_64 requires mate-desktop-configs = 1.26.0-6.fc37, but none of the providers can be installed
But it appears to have some conflicts with systemd-oomd-defaults.
It is working fine when I check out branch f36 though.
How can I solve this problem?
Thanks
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