Workshop Intermediate

The Future of the LInux Desktop? Atomic Images and Bootable Containers

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Session Description

Showing off what I've been working on the past couple months.

A brief description of that fact that most people write code for LInux. But they write that code on laptops running proprietary OSes. This is promarily because running LInux on desktop is a manual affair with quite a few headaches and has almost 0% marketshare. Bootc attempts to bring all the tooling and easy of development of docker containers to the OS level. By putting the kernel in the image, devs are able to FROM an upstream base-image and add any customization to it.

within about 24 hours me and a team of 2 other devs built a new OS that I'm now using as my main OS https://github.com/centos-workstation/achillobator. I'd like to showcase the possibilities of this new technology and hope to peak a few people's interest to try their own hand at building a custom OS for themselves

References

https://github.com/containers/bootc, https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin, https://github.com/centos-workstation/achillobator

Session Categories

FOSS

Speakers

James Reilly On semi-sabbatical learning Hindi in Lucknow. Support, TAM, Sysadmin (or SRE or whatever it's called these days)

I've worked as a Support Engineer at Element and helped scale up support at Beeper, along with 6 years working at Ohio State University as a Sysadmin. In my younger years, I worked for a hospital, a cybersecurity startup, and pet store!

I'm currently living in Lucknow taking a semi-sabbatical to study Hindi and Urdu (trying to pick up that Lakhnawi Tehzeeb!). Very interested in connecting with others who are passionate about open source software.

Reviews

Sounds like a fun project, approving this talk

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