base
Base image: Silverblue with unfiltered Flathub, distrobox, and automatic updates (Deprecated) (by ublue-os)
vanilla-installer
A frontend in GTK 4 and Libadwaita for Albius. (by Vanilla-OS)
base | vanilla-installer | |
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2 | 3 | |
74 | 79 | |
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10.0 | 8.9 | |
about 1 year ago | 19 days ago | |
Shell | Python | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
base
Posts with mentions or reviews of base.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-23.
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Silverblue - am I doing this right?
Like you mentioned, rpm-ostree is meant to be a fallback after non-working options like, in order, flatpak then distrobox/toolbox. But that doesn't mean it can't be used. Keep in mind this is simply a rule of thumb to increase security, stability and rpm-ostree performace, but it's still just a rule of thumb. Silverblue is very flexiible, and I have roughly 600 overlays and while rpm-ostree is slow, the only thing I really do with it is upgrade those packages installed with it, now that my system has the packages I need. Since this can be done automatically (See "man rpm-ostreed.conf") and the system is immutable, the only intervention required is rebooting when necessary (Such as if there's a fixed vulnerability or a new feature update you want). The other nice thing about auto-updates and immutability is that Silverblue is more resistant to breaking while running do to an update of an important system library or the like, since the library isn't even "visible" until the next boot, when those things it depends on are all already setup to use the new version. I also recommend checking out Jorge's flatpak automatic update systemd .timer and .service filese over at https://github.com/ublue-os/base/tree/main/usr/lib/systemd/system and downloading them and using sudo (From a Silverblue terminal) to put them into /etc//systemd/system, doing a "sudo systemctl daemon-reload" and "sudo sytemctl enable flatpak-system-update.timer" . This will update your flatpaks for you. In my opinion, between rpm-ostree auto-updates flatpak updates, you'll have a much smoother experience.
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Universal Blue 1.0 - a toolkit for customizing Fedora images
You'll see that the base image installs flatpaks as a post-install step. I really tried to work around this limitation, but haven't been able to via the OCI approach.
vanilla-installer
Posts with mentions or reviews of vanilla-installer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-03.
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Alpha Build 89: Introducing LVM Thin Provisioning support
Check out https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/vanilla-installer/issues/243 for a visualization of the partition layout.
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Manual partition
Hi, The reason Vanilla doesn't have Manual partitioning support is due to ABRoot complex structure. More info here https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/vanilla-installer/issues/86.
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Universal Blue 1.0 - a toolkit for customizing Fedora images
Alternatively, if someone were to take Vanilla-OS'es first boot thing: https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/vanilla-installer and package it for fedora in a way that did all that then you'd have a nice gui for that part.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing base and vanilla-installer you can also consider the following projects:
vauxite - Immutable Fedora-based Xfce desktop (Deprecated)
boxkit - Build your own custom OCI distrobox container
layering-examples