On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 5:29 PM Dylanger Daly <dylangerd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just wanted to go on record and say I strongly, strongly support this, > Fedora Silverblue could probably at some point replace Xen's dom0, it's > fantastic. >
Okay, great to hear, though there is also yocto rumours about also, and yes its exactly what I meant, to replace anything fedora 3X with Silverblue, even dom0 and templates. > On Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 7:36:01 PM UTC+10 outbac...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 3:38 PM Frédéric Pierret >> <frederic...@qubes-os.org> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > Le 6/28/22 à 10:15, Outback Dingo a écrit : >> > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 2:30 PM Frédéric Pierret >> > > <frederic...@qubes-os.org> wrote: >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> Le 6/28/22 à 06:13, Outback Dingo a écrit : >> > >>> Curiously, I often wonder why Qubes itself, as it claims to be >> > >>> security enhanced, relies on Fedora, and not Silverblue or Kinoite >> > >>> spins. >> > >>> >> > >>> I remember back in the day when it was plasma based, and actually was >> > >>> pretty decent. >> > >>> >> > >>> Silverblue/kinoite provides ostree and more reasonable updating >> > >>> methods, it's also based on fedora so now quite sure as to why you >> > >>> continue down the fedora vanilla path, other then maybe the work >> > >>> involved to switch out the base os flavor. >> > >>> >> > >>> It would surely add another layer of security having an immutable Os >> > >>> that is updateable with rpm-ostree update and rollback capability. >> > >>> >> > >>> Any enlightenment is appreciated >> > >>> >> > >> >> > >> We already discussed that with Marek a while ago and this is something >> > >> we want to take a look at. Right now, the reason is...we totally lack >> > >> human resources to study and work on that subject among all others >> > >> tasks we have to do. >> > >> >> > > well, i guess one could ask someone like me to join up and work on >> > > developing the solution, after all its going to be mostly build system >> > > modifications for "repos", then sorting out how it build a final image >> > > with ostree >> > > There is also the variant rpm-ostree that is now the default, no more >> > > dnf/rpm standard. >> > > >> > >> > I would say the first step would be to create a template because we are >> > going away from Fedora for dom0 soon or later (when sys-gui-gpu would be >> > stable) and it's probably going to be something like Yocto. Marek can give >> > more info. >> > >> >> You mention Yocto, as I'm quite familiar with it, would also be a good >> choice, especially with ostree onboard and the array of OTA update >> methods available. There is a similar in concept project though lxc >> based called OverC from wind river >> yet thats basically partitioning "various machine instances" for iot >> based type stuff they call "cubes", though there is a "cube-desktop", >> XFCE based also that can be built with it. >> >> > Best regards, >> > Frédéric > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "qubes-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to qubes-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/9ec4b7fb-f97f-43e9-b5ef-357eba217d07n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/CAKYr3zz0dsKC-z5O%2BQ6GcNFqUgv5fhf3rQ_iZSRkDtxMV5DZ-Q%40mail.gmail.com.
