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| 41 | 431 | |
| 1,172 | 4,042 | |
| 3.2% | 1.4% | |
| 9.5 | 9.0 | |
| 3 days ago | 10 days ago | |
| C | C | |
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ostree
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NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
Ansible makes mutable changes to the OS, task by task.
Nix is immutable. A new change is made entirely new, and only after the build is successful, all packages are "symlinked" to the current system.
Fedora Silverblue is based on ostree [1]. It works similarly like git, but on your root tree. But it requires you to reboot the whole system for the changes to take effect. Since Nix is just symlinked packages, you don't need to reboot the system.
More detailed explanation here [2].
[1]: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree
[2]: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-12-intro-to-immutable-...
- Can't install from flathub
- hello guys everytime i intall a flatpak on fedora this error always happnes how do i fix it
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PSA: Flatpaks are currently broken on Fedora. Here's a temporary solution.
This one is for the ostree bug currently ongoing: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/2900
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flatpak issue on fedora 38 kde
This sounds related to the ostree bug.
- ostree-system-generator failed with exit status 1 on every boot after update.
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What do you prefer more and why?
I definitely agree that immutability offers considerable value in regards to improving security. But arguably it's insufficient to pull the win over mutable Fedora due to the losses caused by the inability to install the kernel-hardened package and the lack of UKI (Unified Kernel Image) support.
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Question about immutability
Other hardening guides mention a Unified Kernel Image as another measure to further improve security. Unfortunately, once more, this is (currently) not supported on Fedora Silverblue. I haven't seen it being done on openSUSE Aeon either. Though, once again, I'd love to be corrected!
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Does an immutable system really provide enhanced security?
The fedora crew is working on it through ostree though, so both fedora Silverblue and flatpak will be getting it (as well as true immutability) in the future: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/2867
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Silverblue/ Kinoite - real-life shortcomings?
Aside from what has already been mentioned, Unified Kernel Image isn't supported (yet).
flatpak
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Tools for Linux Distro Hoppers
Hopping from one distro to another with a different package manager might require some time to adapt. Using a package manager that can be installed on most distro is one way to help you get to work faster. Flatpak is one of them; other alternative are Snap, Nix or Homebrew. Flatpak is a good starter, and if you have a bunch of free time, I suggest trying Nix.
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Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features
No, it looks like you have to do it on an application basis.
- how strong is the steam (runtime) sandbox for games?
- Flatpak 1.14.5 Released
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Been thinking of switching to linux but I am a noob
Flatpak
- FLaNK Stack Weekly for 20 Nov 2023
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Flathub – The Linux App Store
> CLI tools do not implement auto-complete themselves. What you are seeing are auto-complete scripts for your shell that make network connections.
nit: This is incorrect. Robust auto-complete scripts call the actual program to provide completions.
That is what Flatpak does. It is Flatpak itself that makes the network connections.
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/blob/main/completion/flat...
Not that it would make any differencen if it was implemented in Bash seeing as the Bash script is also provided by Flatpak.
- How to prevent/allow chrome from accessing network devices?
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Linux Phones (2022)
The only performance impact I know of is with the seccomp filter in CPU-bound tasks: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4187
Skimming through the recent comments, there might be a way to optimize some of it.
What are some alternatives?
rpm-ostree - ⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering
steam-runtime - A runtime environment for Steam applications
apt2ostree - Build ostree images based on Debian/Ubuntu
firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox
bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux - This is a project, where I give you a way to use Autodesk Fusion 360 on Linux!
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
mkosi - 💽 Build Bespoke OS Images
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding
pkg2appimage - Tool and recipes to convert existing deb packages to AppImage
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