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Top 11 ostree Open-Source Projects
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nix-installer
Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 2 million installs.
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Fedora-Guide
Fedora/CentOS Stream/Red Hat Enterprise Linux Guide. Including Security tools, Encryption, Virtualization, Gaming, Software Apps, and Resources.
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SaaSHub
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silverblue-postinstall_upgrade
Some tips & tricks, & tutorials for OSTree based systems such as Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite.
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Fedora-OSTree-Setup
Glorified scipt that automates the setup of Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite based on given config file.
This is a way improved[1] version of the official installer, capable of uninstallation among many other things, there is no need to use the official one: https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer
1: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer?tab=read...
Project mention: NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-29Ansible 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-...
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.
Interesting article!
My takeaways:
>"The current solutions involve packaging entire alternate runtimes in containerized environments. Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, Docker, and Steam: these all provide an app packaging mechanism that replaces most or all of the system’s runtime libraries, and they now all use containerization to accomplish this."
[...]
>"All of these technologies are essentially building
an entire OS on top of another OS
just to avoid the challenges of backwards compatibility."
This is basically using containers to replace all system libraries -- to insure that a downloaded binary app always works.
From this point forward, we'll use the term "API" to represent not just Linux kernel syscalls, but the totality of all library calls (system and otherwise!) used by a given downloaded binary application!
Observation: API (in-)consistency (AKA "Stability") one Linux version to another, one Linux distro to another -- is the real problem!
That's the real cause!
Because everything else, everything else, is effect, not cause!
The containerization, the bloated "everything but the kitchen sink" downloads, are the effect of the problem of API (in-)consistency!
Phrased a simpler way -- there is absolutely NO guarantee of consistency between the libraries, system and otherwise, of any two Linux distros!
So if a binary app is to run on all Linux distros -- then it had better damn well better make sure that the exact specific version of all of the libraries that it needs -- are managed by it, not the host operating system!
Containers and bloated library downloads -- are (unfortunately) currently necessary to provide this!
Related:
"Linux Library Mismatch":
https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+library+mismatch
"DLL Hell" (the MS-Windows equivalent)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell
Software Engineering: Bertrand Meyer, "Design By Contract":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract
API Contracts: "What is an API Contract?":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qM__ozdHCU
Eelcho Dolstra: "The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model":
https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf#page=11
Image-based Linux distributions and associated tools:
https://github.com/castrojo/awesome-immutable
Spencer Baugh: "Managing Dependencies":
https://catern.com/posts/deps.html
Try Fedora Sodalite instead. It is Fedora(fresh drivers) Silverblue(immutable base) with Pantheon Desktop Environment (from elementary) https://github.com/sodaliterocks/sodalite
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Flathub: One million active users and growing
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PSA: Flatpaks are currently broken on Fedora. Here's a temporary solution.
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hello guys everytime i intall a flatpak on fedora this error always happnes how do i fix it
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flatpak issue on fedora 38 kde
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ostree-system-generator failed with exit status 1 on every boot after update.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source ostree projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | nix-installer | 1,573 |
| 2 | ostree | 1,180 |
| 3 | rpm-ostree | 817 |
| 4 | awesome-immutable | 741 |
| 5 | Fedora-Guide | 221 |
| 6 | sodalite | 192 |
| 7 | ostree-rs-ext | 68 |
| 8 | silverblue-tools | 66 |
| 9 | silverblue-postinstall_upgrade | 57 |
| 10 | silvernobara | 36 |
| 11 | Fedora-OSTree-Setup | 7 |
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