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I feel exactly the same way. I use plain old Debian now, but used to love some of the Debian based distros. CrunchBang springs to mind. I tend to stick prett

I feel exactly the same way. I use plain old Debian now, but used to love some of the Debian based distros. CrunchBang springs to mind. I tend to stick pretty close to defaults these days, so some scripts and Ansible playbooks configure everything on all of my machines with not a lot of maintenance or future worries.

hk1337 3y ago
I like Debian for servers but prefer fedora for a workstation. Maybe I’m weird.
- doubled112 3y ago
  Not at all, Fedora Workstation is a pretty decent desktop. I run Debian on all of my server stuff at home too. It's not a perfect desktop, but the consistency between machines is something I appreciate. I use it as my stable base while running most applications from Flatpaks. They're up to date but the OS itself never surprises me.
  - hk1337 3y ago
    Yeah, I like Amazon Linux for servers too but not Fedora but you can only use that on AWS
jcastro 3y ago
(Co maintainer here) Yeah this why don't call it a distro. It's just your scripts/ansible playbooks and then github runs "podman build" regularly and spits out an image at the end. At the end of the day it's just running a build step in CI so that your machines just end up with the final image instead of running the playbook/script on each one. Hope that helps!
- SirGiggles 3y ago
  This is a tangent, but do you have a resource/link to where the base image is defined? For example I saw that in your blog [1] you used the base on line 1 `FROM ghcr.io/cgwalters/fedora-silverblue:37`. I was wondering where I could find the Containerfile for that, my Google-fu and searching through the Fedora pages are failing me [1] https://www.ypsidanger.com/building-your-own-fedora-silverblue-image/ https://www.ypsidanger.com/building-your-own-fedora-silverbl...
  - jcastro 3y ago
    Not a tangent at all! https://gitlab.com/fedora/ostree/ci-test/ https://gitlab.com/fedora/ostree/ci-test/ is the current location of the composed images we derive from. That's what ends up on quay.io/fedora-ostree-desktops/ which is what we use to make our base images. Fedora is in the middle of a transition to make more official images on quay.io/fedora, I'm sorry I don't have the info offhand, it's probably in here somewhere: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/silverblue/l/top?period=monthly https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/silverblue/l/top?pe...
    - SirGiggles 3y ago
      Thanks for the reply. On the note of quay.io, is there a function on the website to see the Containerfile that created the artifact? I recall digging around in the past but couldn't really find a link to the source Containerfile.

hk1337 3y ago

I like Debian for servers but prefer fedora for a workstation. Maybe I’m weird.

doubled112 3y ago
Not at all, Fedora Workstation is a pretty decent desktop. I run Debian on all of my server stuff at home too. It's not a perfect desktop, but the consistency between machines is something I appreciate. I use it as my stable base while running most applications from Flatpaks. They're up to date but the OS itself never surprises me.
- hk1337 3y ago
  Yeah, I like Amazon Linux for servers too but not Fedora but you can only use that on AWS

jcastro 3y ago

(Co maintainer here) Yeah this why don't call it a distro. It's just your scripts/ansible playbooks and then github runs "podman build" regularly and spits out an image at the end. At the end of the day it's just running a build step in CI so that your machines just end up with the final image instead of running the playbook/script on each one. Hope that helps!

SirGiggles 3y ago
This is a tangent, but do you have a resource/link to where the base image is defined? For example I saw that in your blog [1] you used the base on line 1 `FROM ghcr.io/cgwalters/fedora-silverblue:37`. I was wondering where I could find the Containerfile for that, my Google-fu and searching through the Fedora pages are failing me [1] https://www.ypsidanger.com/building-your-own-fedora-silverblue-image/ https://www.ypsidanger.com/building-your-own-fedora-silverbl...
- jcastro 3y ago
  Not a tangent at all! https://gitlab.com/fedora/ostree/ci-test/ https://gitlab.com/fedora/ostree/ci-test/ is the current location of the composed images we derive from. That's what ends up on quay.io/fedora-ostree-desktops/ which is what we use to make our base images. Fedora is in the middle of a transition to make more official images on quay.io/fedora, I'm sorry I don't have the info offhand, it's probably in here somewhere: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/silverblue/l/top?period=monthly https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/silverblue/l/top?pe...
  - SirGiggles 3y ago
    Thanks for the reply. On the note of quay.io, is there a function on the website to see the Containerfile that created the artifact? I recall digging around in the past but couldn't really find a link to the source Containerfile.