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Silverblue vs uBlue
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ublue and bluefin co-maintainer here, we've been around for a while now (3rd birthday coming up!) and have been around in a more unofficial capacity for longer.
Bluefin is feature complete and is in maintenance mode, it's just going to get updated in perpetuity to 41, 42, etc. We invested in automation first so most of the maintenance is automatic and it doesn't take much for our team to do it. Right now most of our major ticket items are waiting for things to finish landing in upstream Fedora, most of which are targetted towards F41. A good portion of the team have been around in OSS for a long time and a bunch of us work in the industry and depend on Bluefin for our jobs, so much so that we have a great working relationship with Framework, so we're supporting those laptops as a community option for them.
Aurora is relatively new, coming in just as Plasma 6 landed in fedora. Most reports with issues we get for it are things like it being a new major release, wayland/nvidia issues, etc.
Hopefully that answers some of your questions, if you have more feel free to ask!
Hey! Thanks!
I’ve installed Aurora to my new drive based off the comments here so far, and it’s been pretty smooth bringing my configs over :)
Immutable is new to me, so I’m wondering how you manage host daemons and cli applications, such as mpd for music and password-store for password management
Is the best practice to keep one Fedora distrobox with them?
Also, are there any issues with upgrading a distrobox to a new major release over time?
So far my mindset has been make sure I don’t layer anything, but maybe some things like mpd do make sense to layer?
I also see
brewas another option. Perhaps that’s the preferred way for those types of tools? However, it seems like the system upgrade script updates distrobox and not brew?Sorry for the rambling question - just trying to understand best practices with an immutable distro 😅
One thing you can check out is quadlet, which is podman containers running as systemd services. You just basically put the .container files in the right directory and sytemd will pick them up and run them for you. I have syncthing and zerotier running like this.
I don't really think you need to layer anything unless you're doing virtualization, but I haven't really looked into that yet.
Thanks! That sounds like exactly what I’d want to run mpd. I’ll check it out
For virtualization, I’m all good since I went with uBlue instead of Silverblue for now - the developer images come with lxc/lxd/qemu/libvirt :)