Hey Everybody,
We've got a meeting this Thursday on December 19th 2019!
Location: WPI Campus Center Mid-Century room (our usual haunt)
Date & Time: December 19th, 2019
Our speaker this month is Joshua Stone. He's going to giving a talk about a couple of cool technologies in Fedora! Josh provided me some details about these innovations so I've mashed them up and included them below.
Silverblue s a Fedora variant designed around immutability where a new system image is committed as the new /sysroot without affecting the state of the running system. This is reminiscent of Android A/B updates, although the update backend -- ostree -- has elements of a version control system like git.
Toolbox is also interesting as it lets you switch into an unprivileged development environment that can be built up and torn down without affecting the host as tools are installed inside a container.
Flatpak uses the same file storage backend as Silverblue to manage apps and shared
runtimes. This app distribution technology allows you to decouple apps and operating systems as everything is built and run inside a sandbox, making upgrades easier. Compare needing only one version of an app to package as a flatpak, versus packaging for different versions.
As usual, snacks and refreshments will be provided and afterwards we'll head off for dinner to continue the conversation.
Thanks,
Tim Keller
WLUG President