December WLUG Meeting! Topic: Fedora Silverblue, toolbox and Flatpaks!
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: https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/ Toolbox: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/toolbox/ Flatpaks: https://flatpak.org/ *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 -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
Dangit, I can't make the meeting this month, I've got a conflict I can't get out of that night. Will there be any slides or anything from the meeting? John
I also cannot make it this Thursday due to a conflict. See you all next month, Joel On December 16, 2019 7:56:48 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Dangit, I can't make the meeting this month, I've got a conflict I can't get out of that night. Will there be any slides or anything from the meeting?
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Hey all, I'm glad to be a part of this! I'd just like to give a fair warning that my material is probably going to be rough around the edges since I haven't had much time to prepare a slideshow. Honestly I'm thinking that I'll probablyalternate between a slideshow and just showing you some examples on my laptop. -Josh On Mon, 2019-12-16 at 09:21 -0500, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:
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: https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/Toolbox: ht tps://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora- silverblue/toolbox/Flatpaks: https://flatpak.org/
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
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Josh, No worries. We're a quality of content over slick presentation every day of the week. I'm sure it'll all turn out fine. Later, Tim. On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 8:21 PM Joshua Stone <joshua.gage.stone@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all,
I'm glad to be a part of this! I'd just like to give a fair warning that my material is probably going to be rough around the edges since I haven't had much time to prepare a slideshow. Honestly I'm thinking that I'll probably alternate between a slideshow and just showing you some examples on my laptop.
-Josh
On Mon, 2019-12-16 at 09:21 -0500, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:
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: https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/ Toolbox: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/toolbox/ Flatpaks: https://flatpak.org/
*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
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Joel -
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Joshua Stone -
Tim Keller