It has always been my understanding that Silverblue will eventually become Fedora Workstation, Is that still the plan?
I am on Silverblue 40 and I’m wondering if the implementation when and if it happens, will require a reiinstallation or a rebase or what?
What is the latest talk on this plan? I love Silverblue so much I bought a domain and will share my journeyon the site, and would be sad to know noone will even remember the name silverblue.
This is a misunderstanding. If you have questions abou the Project there are links and blog post to read about. There’s an initiative towards 2028 to get the majority of the userbase onto an Atomic release.
Here are some notes :
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Emphasis on "A very long way " , also this article is 5yrs old, and there’s still 4 more years of this 2028 project. I think this comes from a naming convention more so than “just moving users over” which would not happen. Users would have a choice to move an operating system. The naming convention could change as the author states “possibly”.
It is quite simple when you know a bit the story of Fedora.
Silverblue is a immutable version of Fedora Workstation. They share the same desktop (Gnome) but use a different way on how to install software. While the legacy workstation uses dnf, Silverblue uses rpm-ostree to make installations in the Terminal.
Of course on both versions you can use the Software Application.
The name Silverblue has been used as a “Code-Name” to avoid some misunderstandings in between this two Editions alias Projects.
As this two things are different there is no merge needed.
More information you can find in the Documentation under the FAQ section:
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