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Bringing bootc to AlmaLinux (almalinux.org)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/linux
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From the Creator of HeliumOS, a distro based off AlmaLinux or CentOS Stream on top of the technology of Fedora Atomic Desktops, Bazzite, Fedora coreOS and RHEL Image Mode.

This is a pretty big thing, as extreme stability + stable packages makes the perfect workhorse for an install-and-forget PC.

Together with KDE or other Desktop Environments (CentOS 10 will have Plasma 6 in the external "EPEL" repos) this will be more than a great Windows 10 replacement.

Have all your apps as Flatpak or with a Fedora Distrobox, no problems.

Maybe even an image using packages of the "CentOS Stream Hyperscale SIG" that backports newer Fedora kernel, systemd, mesa and others for improved hardware support, GPU tasks, drivers etc.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No thanks, adding unnecessary complexity decreases reliability and efficiency. Might make it easier to migrate things to AWS, also a negative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Where is the complexity?

A compose file can literally be

FROM quay.io/almalinuxorg/almalinux-bootc:9.4

# Add files from same directory
ADD somefile /etc/somefile

# Add EPEL repository
RUN dnf install -y epel-release

# Install KDE Desktop environment
RUN dnf groupinstall -y "KDE Plasma Workspaces"

# Install flatpak, podman, distrobox, and fish
RUN dnf install -y flatpak podman distrobox fish

RUN systemctl enable sddm

Done, build an ISO, push the images to a registry and you have made your own "distro". There are at least 3 implementations, on Github, Gitlab and Codeberg, so you can use their individual runners

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How can I get set up going from the Containerfile to an ISO?